Disable HTML form input autocomplete and autofill

disable-html-form-input-autocomplete-autofill.md

Disable HTML Form Input Autocomplete and Autofill

1. Add autocomplete="off" onto <form> element;
2. Add hidden <input> with autocomplete="false" as a first children element of the form.

<form autocomplete="off" method="post" action="">
    <input autocomplete="false" name="hidden" type="text" style="display:none;">
    ...

This formation is going to prevent Chrome and Firefox to offer autofill and autocomplete for all input fields inside the form.

If you want a true fix, please go mark as impacted here. This needs attention from the Chromium dev team.

Everything in this thread is a hack to work around it, and is likely to break or cause bugs in your application down the line. Better to get it fixed at the source, no?

These workarounds are also be very misleading for Jnr developers. :(

This still working in Chrome:
Using a non-standard value may trick the browser into not automatically filling in the field.

<input type="text" autocomplete="new-text" />
<input type="number" autocomplete="new-number" />
<input type="password" autocomplete="new-password" />

Hi @valentimmx, please also drop your comment here: https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40910184?pli=1

Mark yourself as impacted. This needs attention from the Chromium dev team for a proper fix.

I hope this could be helpful for someone:
form structure:

• name
• email
• phone
• billing address // <== I had a problem here, where it was auto-suggesting email address autocomplete
• password

I tried all of the above but with no luck, then
when I change the form to:

• name
• email
• password // moved it up
• phone
• billing address // <== auto suggestions stoped 🫨

chrome 128.0.6613.138

None of these works for me. Feels like you have to hack it up by adding read only and later remove after rendering the component. This is stupid....

Couldn’t agree more @tlevivsoft, would you mind sharing your frustrations with the Chromium team here? https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40910184?pli=1

Better yet, mark yourself as affected. More traction we can get on the ticket the better.

@rawaby88 you too if you’re open to it please