Comments on: Forcing Firefox to obey autocomplete="off" for password fields

By: orion

orion — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 17:52:04 +0000

thanks steven, your trick is neat.

By: eon

eon — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 15:08:23 +0000

Again to Mikey Benny:
Who am I to tell you you can’t save your password? I’m somebody programming for an application that BY DESIGN will be running on SHARED computers, such as in an internet cafe, a school computer lab, etc etc (though these two are the most common).

So sometimes it really is important to prevent saving of passwords. No reason to be calling us nannies.

Steven Kuck:
This is the best solution in our situation. Thank you very much. Seems Firefox (others too, probably) will only try to auto-fill the FIRST password input, so that’s an excellent non-javascript/jquery, valid HTML solution.

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:27:28 +0000

Here is a Mootools version:

(function(){$$(‘input[type=password]‘).set(‘value’,”);}).delay(100);

Now, I’m not sure if adding a domready or load event is necessary, so use your best judgment. I just happened to come across this site looking for something else.

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 20:40:43 +0000

Mikey Benny : Who are you to tell me I can’t save *my* password on *my own* computer? This is a little bit of control-freakishness and nanny-complex if you ask me.

haha. yea, these freaking nanny computer programmers are trying to control everything! stick it to the man! seriously though, this post wasn't geared towards end-users and it isn't really meant for wiping your login form. for example a "change password" form - you clearly don't want the browser to auto-fill the fields.

By: Mikey Benny

Mikey Benny — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:25:23 +0000

Who are you to tell me I can’t save *my* password on *my own* computer?

This is a little bit of control-freakishness and nanny-complex if you ask me.

By: Jim

Jim — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 02:03:35 +0000

@Steven Kuck Awesome! Just what I was looking for to solve several password troll headaches on our site.

By: Ritchie

Ritchie — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 06:48:36 +0000

@Steven Kuck Thats a neat little trick. How does it work?

By: Shad

Shad — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 20:20:06 +0000

Fantastic, thank you for that simple solution.

By: Stephen Embree

Stephen Embree — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:54:12 +0000

Thanks Steven, your trick seems to work!

By: Steven Kuck

Steven Kuck — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 17:42:14 +0000

This trick works with the latest (at time of post) FF, IE, Chrome, Safari, and Opera. It’s ugly, but it works: add a non-displayed password input that you ignore. It has to be the first “password” field in the form.

It shows up if the user disables page styles, but it does leave the other password fields unaltered by autofill.