Disabling IE auto-complete on text fields 1

[Streetdaddy]

Is there some way of preventing IE from showing the dropdown list of all text previously entered into the field with focus? If the history is long, it can be a real performance hit...

I have a HTML chat application and the chat field has a very very long history. On clients with a old PC, it almost kills their whole computer! Miles
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[cian]

You can delete them. If I understand the problem right!
Drop down the list, highlight the one you want and press delete!!


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[Streetdaddy]

No i think you've misunderstood me. Here is an example: you go to a site and in a field enter an email address, then submit the form for whatever reason. Next time you go to enter an email address into a field, once you have typed a character in IE displays a dropdown under the field with a history of text that has been entered into the same field previously. This is an option in IE, but I don't want users to have to manually disable it, I want IE to ignore the field and not show the history of entered text...

Does that make sense? Miles
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[cian]

Hi,

Yep it made sense. You can do what I said and manually delete them but it will just build the history again.

I presume what you need is some java to stop it recording the entered text. Sorry I couldnt help. I'll have a search on a few sites for some script to do that.




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[SPYDERIX]

If you want to turn this feature off completely:

- Start MSIE
- TOOLS|INTERNET OPTIONS
- Click on Content tab
- Click on Auto Complete button
- Un-check all the boxes
- You may also want to delete the forms (Click Clear Forms, Clear Passwords Buttons. Do it 2-3 times)
- Hit OK
- Hit Apply
- Hit OK

That's it.

Hope this helps!

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[cian]

So obvious I didnt even think of looking there!! Good job Spyderix!!

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[SPYDERIX]

oops...sorry this won't work, well it will, but only on your computer. Sorry for the mistake!

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[Wullie]

Hi all,

LOL... I don't know how to do it but you two guys are missing the point here..

Hope this helps Wullie

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[Wullie]

Hi mate,

I just thought about this and why not use a textarea for the input and just size that to fit??

This way, autocomplete doesn't come into operation.

Hope this helps Wullie

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[cian]

One of those days Wullie!! É

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[Streetdaddy]

textarea, great idea Miles
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[xutopia]

Keep it simple guys.

<input type=text autocomplete=off>

works in IE5+

Hope this helps. Gary

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Haran