Chrome ignores autocomplete=“off”

Question

I\'ve created a web application which uses a tagbox drop down. This works great in all browsers except Chrome browser (Version 21.0.1180.89).

Despite both the

Answer 1

Up until just this last week, the two solutions below appeared to work for Chrome, IE and Firefox. But with the release of Chrome version 48 (and still in 49), they no longer work:

1. The following at the top of the form:

2. The following in the password input element:

   autocomplete="off"

So to quickly fix this, at first I tried to use a major hack of initially setting the password input element to disabled and then used a setTimeout in the document ready function to enable it again.

setTimeout(function(){$('#PasswordData').prop('disabled', false);}, 50);

But this seemed so crazy and I did some more searching and found @tibalts answer in Disabling Chrome Autofill. His answer is to use autocomplete="new-password" in the passwords input and this appears to work on all browsers (I have kept my fix number 1 above at this stage).

Here is the link in the Google Chrome developer discussion: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=370363#c7