In edge autocomplete=off not working is there a fix?

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In Edge autocomplete=off not working is there a fix? If I set autocomplete to off at the form or control level Chrome honors it and no popup suggesting values open. However, Edge does not honor this attribute and always suggests previous data.

If there a different setting to make Edge turn off the auofill/autocomplete?

What I have tried:

<form id="Form1" method="post" runat="server" autocomplete="off">

Posted 18-Jul-22 4:34am

ehwash

Updated 18-Jul-22 5:06am

Dave Kreskowiak

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Patrice T 18-Jul-22 10:41am

Why don't you ask MS ?
We are not their support service !

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Dave Kreskowiak · Accepted Answer · 2022-07-18T05:06:00

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It works, just not how you think it does. Edge can do some "helping the user" by trying to figure out what your form fields are looking for and filling in the information even if autocomplete="off" is specified..

No, you cannot turn this off from your page or code.

What you can do depends on what the rest of your form content looks like. There's little tricks like this to fool Edge:

HTML

<span>First Name:</span>

is replaced with

HTML

<span>First N<span class="hiddenSpan">bla</span>ame:</span>

Posted 18-Jul-22 5:06am

Dave Kreskowiak

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ehwash 18-Jul-22 11:26am

Thanks, that works. How odd.

ehwash 18-Jul-22 11:27am

Is there any official documentation on this behavior? I need to show a customer

Dave Kreskowiak 18-Jul-22 11:28am

No, there isn't. This is something the community figured out.