01 Oct 05 Turning off IE and Firefox’s AutoComplete Feature

Sometimes it is inconvenient or inappropriate to have the autocomplete feature of IE or FireFox. I found it blocked the custom autocomplete feature I was building for my app. Just add autocomplete="off" to the form to turn it off:

<form id="formSignOn" autocomplete="off" method="post" runat="server"></form>

In ASP.NET I added it by using the following line:
Me. Form.Attributes.Add("autocomplete", "off")

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Reader's Comments

1. Administrator | 21 Nov 2005 2:28 pm

   for plain HTML just add it to the form directly like so:

   form method="post" autocomplete="off" ...>

2. Nitin B | 24 Nov 2006 3:50 am

   Though I am a fan of Firefox, it does not obey autocomplete=”off” in case of saved username and password fields. Try it yourself.

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