Form input text browser history...

[vab]

What is the secret to stopping a browser from displaying a history when you cursor-down (or double-click) in a form input text field?

Of the forms I have seen that accomplish this, such as forms for logging in to administrator control panels and bank websites etc. the input text field looks perfectly normal in source. No javascripts, nothing out of the ordinary.

I can generate a random field name in PHP and store that name in a hidden field in the form but there has to be a "standard" way of accomplishing this.

Any help is greatly appreciated...

[easethan]

I'm not an expert on javascript(which would be the way to do it) but I beleive that you can't really do that except through a creative method like your secret file thing.

In other words, I dun think there's a standard way to do it.

I'm pretty sure this is a browser function, and not possibly changed through code...but as I said I'm not the expert.

[vab]

Finally found it and it works. May not be what other pages are doing (like Bank logins etc.) but it is simply:

<input type="text" name="whatever" autocomplete="OFF">

who'd have thunk it?

This would be good for single computers that are running forms for online tests where someone could check the history of other people's answers... Also if you wanted to setup a low security single field entry into a form or some such thing...

[easethan]

Heh, that's cool. Sorry I was being too lazy to find it for you. :rolleyes: