[RESOLVED] How to prevent Auto Fill in Web Browsers

7xb_co_uk

Hi Guys,

I'm making a script to update a users email address however when the page loads, it automatically puts the users username (in the email field) and password (in the password field 😛).

I would turn off the feature in my firefox but i'm guessing other people would have the same problem.

Here's the code for the form, although probably not necessary.

<?php
echo "<table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" border=\"0\"><form action=\"".$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']."?go=email\" method=\"POST\">";
		echo "<tr valign=\"top\"><td><p>Old Email Address:</td><td><p>".$row['email']."</td></tr>";
		echo "<tr valign=\"top\"><td><p>New Email Address:</td><td><p><input type=\"text\" name=\"emailaddy\" size=\"44\"></td></tr>";
		echo "<tr valign=\"top\"><td><p>Password :</td><td><p><input type=\"password\" name=\"currentpass\" size=\"24\"></td></tr>";	
		echo "<tr valign=\"top\"><td></td><td><p><input type=\"submit\" name=\"submit\" value=\"Update\"></td></tr>";
		echo "</form></table>";
?>

Thanks in advance.
Jon

bpat1434

I don't know of any way to do this. As long as the browser is set up to remember values, it will auto-fill them. Not sure if there's a way around it.

I guess you could run a loop every 1/2 second to reset the value to 0 and add an "onfocus" listener/attribute to the inputs and once it's been focused, you could terminate the loop. Not a guarantee, but worth a shot.

7xb_co_uk

I'm not one for using javascript, however i did manage to find this handy piece of code with a little more thorough searching

<html>
<head>
<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
function clearForms()
{
  var i;
  for (i = 0; (i < document.forms.length); i++) {
    document.forms[i].reset();
  }
}
-->
</script>
</head>
<body bgcolor="#278bc7" onLoad="clearForms()" onUnload="clearForms()">

nothing at all in the fields
thought i'd post it for reference purposes!

Thanks bpat 🙂

Jon