Disable form autofill in Chrome without disabling

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How can we disable Chrome's autofill feature on certain <input>s to prevent them from being automatically populated when the page loads?

At the same time I need to keep autocomplete enabled, so the user can still see the list of suggestions by clicking on the input or typing in it. Can this be done?

EDIT: Feel free to use plain Javascript or jQuery if you feel it is necessary or you feel like it would make your solution simpler.

Answer 1

Chrome password manager is looking for input elements with type="password" and fill in saved password. It also ignores autocomplete="off" property.

Here is fix for latest Chrome (Version 40.0.2181.0 canary):

<input name="password">

JS:

setTimeout(function() {
    var input = document.querySelector("input[name=password]");
    input.setAttribute("type", "password");
}, 0)

Answer 2

After a lot of struggle, I have found that the solution is a lot more simple that you could imagine:

Instead of autocomplete="off" just simply use autocomplete="false" ;)

Try this...

$(document).ready(function () {
    $('input').attr('autocomplete', 'false');
});

Answer 3

I was recently faced with this problem, and with no simple solution since my fields can be prepopulated, I wanted to share an elegant hack I came up with by setting password type in the ready event.

Don't declare your input field as type password when creating it, but add a ready event listener to add it for you:

function createSecretTextInput(name,parent){
    var createInput = document.createElement("input");
    createInput.setAttribute('name', name);
    createInput.setAttribute('class', 'secretText');
    createInput.setAttribute('id', name+'SecretText');
    createInput.setAttribute('value', 'test1234');

    if(parent==null)
       document.body.appendChild(createInput);
    else
        document.getElementById(parent).appendChild(createInput);

    $(function(){
        document.getElementById(name+'SecretText').setAttribute('type', 'password');
    });
};

createSecretTextInput('name', null);

http://jsfiddle.net/

Answer 4

Here's the magic you want:

    autocomplete="new-password"

Chrome intentionally ignores autocomplete="off" and autocomplete="false". However, they put new-password in as a special clause to stop new password forms from being auto-filled.

I put the above line in my password input, and now I can edit other fields in my form and the password is not auto-filled.

Answer 5

A little late, but here's my fool proof solution useful for pages like the sign up/registration page where the user has to input a new password.

<form method="post">
    <input type="text" name="fname" id="firstname" x-autocompletetype="given-name" autocomplete="on">
    <input type="text" name="lname" id="lastname" x-autocompletetype="family-name" autocomplete="on">
    <input type="text" name="email" id="email" x-autocompletetype="email" autocomplete="on">
    <input type="password" name="password" id="password_fake" class="hidden" autocomplete="off" style="display: none;">
    <input type="password" name="password" id="password" autocomplete="off">
</form>

Chrome will detect two password inputs and will not auto fill the password fields. However, the field id="password_fake" one will be hidden via CSS. So the user will only see one password field.

I've also added some extra attributes "x-autocompletetype" which is a chrome experimental specific auto fill feature. From my example, chrome will autofill in the first name, last name and email address, and NOT the password field.

Answer 6

autocomplete="off" on the input now working on Chrome V44 (and Canary V47)