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How to turn off password and email/username autocomplete.
<!--
<form autocomplete="off"> will turn off autocomplete for the form in most browsers
except for username/email/password fields
-->
<form autocomplete="off">
<!-- fake fields are a workaround for chrome/opera autofill getting the wrong fields -->
<input id="username" style="display:none" type="text" name="fakeusernameremembered">
<input id="password" style="display:none" type="password" name="fakepasswordremembered">
<!--
<input autocomplete="nope"> turns off autocomplete on many other browsers that don't respect
the form's "off", but not for "password" inputs.
-->
<input id="real-username" type="text" autocomplete="nope">
<!--
<input type="password" autocomplete="new-password" will turn it off for passwords everywhere
-->
<input id="real-password" type="password" autocomplete="new-password">
</form>
@lucacerza
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lucacerza commented Mar 16, 2021 via email

@geomago
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geomago commented Mar 24, 2021

None of the above solution worked for me in Chrome for Mac; in particular an input field generated by the "typeahead.js" library (that was not a password field) insisted to display the password suggestion when the field gets empty. At last I found that by simply putting the field inside a

tag makes it work, with no need to specify autocomplete=off in the field itself.

@tranbinhvn
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tranbinhvn commented Apr 6, 2021

With the reason for using the type="password" in mind: why not using type="text" and give it a font-family which makes the text unreadable? Like dots, or what ever.

<style>
    input.key {
        -webkit-text-security: disc;
    }
</style>
<script>
    var tagArr = document.getElementsByTagName("form");
    for (let i = 0; i < tagArr.length; i++) {
        tagArr[i].autocomplete = 'off';
    }
    var tagArrInput = document.getElementsByTagName("input");
    for (let i = 0; i < tagArrInput.length; i++) {
        tagArrInput[i].autocomplete = 'off';
        if (tagArrInput[i].type == "password") {
            tagArrInput[i].type = "text";
            tagArrInput[i].classList.add("key");
        }
        console.log('name=', tagArrInput[i].name);
    }
</script>

@killmenot
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For everyone who may need it there is a library that was created to resolve this problem
https://github.com/noppa/text-security

This solution works for me well (I adapted it for jss)

{
  password: {
    fontFamily: 'text-security-disc',
    WebkitTextSecurity: 'disc',
    '&::placeholder': {
      fontFamily: theme.typography.fontFamily,
    }
  }
}

@tomwjerry
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One thing that worked for me was to use httprequest to register users, I had to remove the password elements before calling location.href. No idea if it works in chrome. Browsers getting smarter so I guess it is just a question of time before this no longer works.

@MariaEduardaDaSilva
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MariaEduardaDaSilva commented Oct 15, 2021

That worked for me and my friend (@amandasantiagu), we are using the latest Chrome version 94.0.4606.81
We used it in React and it worked perfectly

<form autocomplete="off" style="100%">
        <input autocomplete="false" type="search" style=" overflow: hidden; display: none " />

        <input autocomplete="new-password">Your input info here </input>
</form>

@davesheffer
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use 'novalidate' on the form element
https://www.w3schools.com/tags/att_form_novalidate.asp

@mgssim
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mgssim commented Nov 25, 2023

help me for this type for special password

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