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Asked: 2026-05-10T23:26:41+00:00

I’ve created a login submit form in HTML but for some reason user/password autocompletion

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I’ve created a login submit form in HTML but for some reason user/password autocompletion does not work like I expect in firefox.

This is what happens in Firefox:

  • I give username and password and click on the login button
  • Firefox prompts me if I would like to remember the password. I press ‘remember’ and login works. (I made sure I deleted all remembered passwords before running this test)
  • I log out and return to the login page. I would expect the username and password field to be prefilled but that is not the case (if FF has stored only one user/pw combi for a specific URL than it automatically prefills this combi in your form)

Notice that I don’t (want to) use cookies. I verified in FF password manager that username and password had actually been stored (they were)

Here’s the code for this page:

<form name='login_form' id='login_form' autocomplete='ON' onsubmit='javascript:xajax_action_login(document.getElementById('user_name').value, document.getElementById('password').value); return false;'>     <div class='login_line'>         <div class='login_line_left'>name</div>         <div id='user_name_id' class='login_line_right'><input size='16' maxlength='16' name='user_name' id='user_name' type='text'></div>     </div> <!-- login_line -->     <div class='login_line'>         <div class='login_line_left'>password</div>         <div id='password_id' class='login_line_right'><input size='16' maxlength='16' name='password' id='password' type='password'></div>     </div> <!-- login_line -->     <div class='login_line'>         <div class='login_line_left'> </div>         <div class='login_line_right'><input class='button' value='login' type='submit'>     </div> <!-- login_line --> </form> <!-- login_form -->

What is wrong with my code? How can I get autocompletion to work in FF with my code?

Autocompletion does work correct with for instance gmail. Each time I visit the login page of gmail, the email and password fields are correctly prefilled. I don’t use the ‘remember me on this computer’ checkbox so no cookies are used.

I would greatly appriciate your help. Jasper

Update
Autocomplete is enabled in firefox. I want to stay IE compatible.

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  1. I found out why it doesn’t work. I use ajax to paste the example html in a container div. Apperently firefox is very sensitive about this because (as mentioned before) my code does work in IE.

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