Disable form autofill in Chrome without disabling autocomplete [duplicate]

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.

Solution 1:

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.

Solution 2:

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.

Solution 3:

Fix: prevent browser autofill in

 <input type="password" readonly onfocus="this.removeAttribute('readonly');"/>

Update: Mobile Safari sets cursor in the field, but does not show virtual keyboard. New Fix works like before but handles virtual keyboard:

<input id="email" readonly type="email" onfocus="if (this.hasAttribute('readonly')) {
    this.removeAttribute('readonly');
    // fix for mobile safari to show virtual keyboard
    this.blur();    this.focus();  }" />

Live Demo https://jsfiddle.net/danielsuess/n0scguv6/

// UpdateEnd

Explanation Instead of filling in whitespaces or window-on-load functions this snippet works by setting readonly-mode and changing to writable if user focuses this input field (focus contains mouse click and tabbing through fields).

No jQuery needed, pure JavaScript.

Solution 4:

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');
});

Solution 5:

I stumbled upon the weird chrome autofill behaviour today. It happened to enable on fields called: "embed" and "postpassword" (filling there login and password) with no apparent reason. Those fields had already autocomplete set to off.

None of the described methods seemed to work. None of the methods from the another answer worked as well. I came upon my own idea basing on Steele's answer (it might have actually worked, but I require the fixed post data format in my application):

Before the real password, add those two dummy fields:

<input type='text' style='display: none'>
<input type='password' style='display: none'>

Only this one finally disabled autofill altogether for my form.

It's a shame, that disabling such a basic behavior is that hard and hacky.