How to turn off the autocomplete function on browsers

Question

This has been bugging me for a while and i was wondering how to prevent it in code. I am using safari to test my code and i have lots of forms, when i type in something that starts with the same letters, safari puts up this stupid bar. I was wondering if that is possible to prevent.

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Thanks for the help!

Have you tried looking into the HTML reference of your choice about that? — hakre, Sep 07 '13 at 22:49
Or perhaps into the manual of the Safari browser you're concerned about? — hakre, Sep 07 '13 at 22:58
According to your accepted answer, you might be interested in: [Override browser form-filling and input highlighting with HTML/CSS](http://stackoverflow.com/q/2338102/367456) and [Is there a W3C valid way to disable autocomplete in a HTML form?](http://stackoverflow.com/q/582244/367456) — hakre, Sep 07 '13 at 23:26

Emilio Gort · Answer 1 · 2013-09-08T00:11:05.270

Try this in your forms:

autocomplete="off" this should fix the issue for all modern browsers.

<form name="form1" id="form1" method="post" autocomplete="off"
   action="http://www.example.com/form.cgi">
  [...]
</form>

In current versions of Gecko browsers, the autocomplete attribute works perfectly. For earlier versions, going back to Netscape 6.2, it worked with the exception for forms with "Address" and "Name"

Documetation

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 07 '13 at 22:49

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try adding this attribute to your input field:

autocomplete="off"

answered Sep 07 '13 at 22:49

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timgavin · Answer 3 · 2013-09-07T23:02:10.373

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In Safari, go to Preferences > AutoFill and uncheck Other Forms.

edited Sep 07 '13 at 23:02

answered Sep 07 '13 at 22:56

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-1. The question clearly asks "how to prevent it in code", and "go to Preferences->AutoFill" is not preventing it "in code". – Ken White Sep 08 '13 at 03:17
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Pretty sure the original question didn't mention code... – timgavin Sep 08 '13 at 03:20
I'm [pretty sure](http://stackoverflow.com/revisions/18678650/1) it did. – Sep 30 '13 at 12:45

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