I just updated my browser to Chrome Version 63.0.3239.84 (Official Build) (64-bit).
I then proceeded to go on my website, where I have a input box with autocomplete='off', yet I still get the following:
(You can see my inbuilt suggestion dropdown below it)
This never used to be the case. Nothing else has changed!
Why is this happening? Is this a bug in the new version of chrome? I have tried all other suggestions like autocomplete="false" or applying autocomplete=off to the form too. I have even tried to apply these with jquery after the page has loaded but also no luck.
I have tested this on multiple machines with the newest version of chrome on different operating systems. The issue persists.
4 Answers
Answers 1
Looks like a possible regression in Chrome 63. In Chrome's original autofill documentation:
In the past, many developers would add autocomplete="off" to their form fields to prevent the browser from performing any kind of autocomplete functionality. While Chrome will still respect this tag for autocomplete data, it will not respect it for autofill data. So when should you use autocomplete="off"? One example is when you've implemented your own version of autocomplete for search.
https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2015/06/checkout-faster-with-autofill
They do make a distinction between autocomplete and autofill, although it's not clear they are different.
Chrome, Safari, and Edge are all attempting to implement autofill but there is no clear standard. They look at the name attribute rather than an explicit, standardized attribute.
For now auto-complete="something-new" is a good workaround, although syntactically it makes no sense. This seems to work because the browser can't understand it.
Answers 2
Having autocomplete="false" instead of autocomplete="off" works, you can read more from the Chrome team as to why they did it
here:
https://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/form-styles-that-chromium-understands https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=468153 https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!topic/chromium-dev/zhhj7hCip5c https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2015/06/checkout-faster-with-autofill
Answers 3
We tried autocomplete="false" and autocomplete="off", neither work. But something Chrome doesn't understand, like autocomplete="disabled", does seem to work. Strange!
Answers 4
After Chrome 63 it looks like they changed it to autocomplete="disabled"
I recommend you get a browser detecting library and for the rest of it use autocomplete="off"
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