Question

I need a text input field which does not use the autocomplete function – If a user has submitted the form before, his previous submissions should -not- appear as he types into the form again, even if he is typing the same thing again. As far as I can tell, there are a few ways to do this:

1. <form autocomplete="off">
However, I believe this is a proprietary tag, and I am not sure how compatible it is across browsers

2. Give the input field a random ‘name’
One could even use JS to set the name back to an expected value before submission. However, if the user does not have JS installed, you’d need another hidden input with the name – and the php code on the other side gets messy fast.

Do you know of any other ways? Is one of these ways the “accepted” way? Comments?

Thanks,
Mala

Answer 1

Lookie here: Is there a W3C valid way to disable autocomplete in a HTML form?