- The autocomplete attribute used for an input field should have autocomplete enabled or not.
- Autocomplete allows the browser to predict the value based on history of browser.
- When a user starts to type in a field, the browser should display options to fill in the field, based on earlier typed values/history.
- The autocomplete attribute works with the following types: text, search, url, tel, email, password, date, range and color.
- The autocomplete attribute sometime not working properly in some browser. So there are some work around as follows.
- Use value as 'block' instead of 'off' to disable autocomplete attribute at form level.
i.e. <form action="" autocomplete="off">
replace with <form action="" autocomplete="block"> - To support multiple browsers and one of browser not working properly, use following JavaScript.
i.e. Let's assume Chrome not supporting autocomplete attribute out of all browsers.
<script type="text/javascript"> if($.browser.chrome) { $(document).on('focus click tap', 'input', function() { $(this).attr("autocomplete", 'block'); }); } else { $(document).on('focus click tap', 'input', function() { $(this).attr("autocomplete", 'off'); }); } </script> - Field level, suppose out off 10 fields some of them not supporting autocomplete 'off' attribute properly. Then we can use field level autocomplete attribute like as follow: i.e. <input type="text" id="name" path="name" autocomplete="name"/> or <input type="text" id="name" path="name" autocomplete="off"/> or <input type="text" id="name" path="name" autocomplete="block"/>
Note : The autocomplete attribute mostly working fine in all browser except Chrome browser.
