I have a school test site where students enter answers. I want to disable
the auto complete feature. You can do this for IE via autocomplete=off to
the form or input control. But, this is not XHTML compliant. Does anyone
know how to disable this in a XHTML compliant manner?
Amil
Hello Amil,
> I have a school test site where students enter answers. I want to
> disable the auto complete feature. You can do this for IE via
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>
> Amil
Most of these features can also be controlled by a meta tag or a meta server
header. Not in this case it seems.
Microsoft documents the autocomplete feature here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/workshop/author/forms/autocom
plete_ovr.asp
If you want to stay xhtml compliant, then a solution using Javascript is
probably the easiest solution. Just set the autocomplete property of the
form or the input to off using script, and your HTML will still validate.
http://chrisholland.blogspot.com/2004/11/banks-protect-privacy-disable.html
On the other hand, you could also ignore the warning.
As side note, Firefox does not honour the autocomplete=off tag in all versions.
They do however now recommend to deviate from the xhtml standard and use
the IE tag.
http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/How_to_Turn_Off_Form_Autocompletion#Origina
l_Document_Information
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Jesse Houwing
jesse.houwing at sogeti.nl