Disabling Safari autofill on usernames and passwords

Question

You might already know, that Safari has a nasty autofill bug where it fills email, username and password fields no matter if you set autocomplete=\"off\" or not

Answer 1

My issue: I have a section in an admin area that allows users to set all language values, some of which contain the words "password", "email", "email address" etc. I don't want these values to be filled with the user's details, they are for creating translations into another language. This is then a valid exception to the "circumvent the browser's preference" mentioned.

My solution: I simply created alternate names:

$name = str_replace('email','em___l',$name);
$name = str_replace('password','pa___d',$name);

Then when the form is posted:

foreach($_POST as $name=>$value) {
    $name=str_replace('em___l','email',$name);
    $name=str_replace('pa___d','password',$name);
    $_POST[$name]=$value;
}

This is the only method that worked for me.