Question

I’d like to prevent my back-office login form to display the auto-completion usually displayed with Firefox for instance. I quickly read some stuff about the attribute autocomplete but it doesn’t seem to be standard.

Must I use write some JavaScript to achieve this?

Answer 1

No JavaScript required. You are right, the autocomplete attribute is not part of the standard, but neither is the autocomplete feature itself. 🙂

EDIT:

Straight from Mozilla:

This form attribute is not part of any
web standards but was first introduced
in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 5.
Netscape introduced it in version 6.2
— in prior versions, this attribute is ignored. The autocomplete attribute
was added at the insistance of banks
and card issuers — but never followed
through on to reach standards
certification.