Disable Firefox's Auto-fill

Question

Is it possible to disable Firefox\'s auto-fill feature without disabling auto-complete?

I know I can do this:

autocomplete=\"off\"
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Answer 1

I had this problem myself. Mike's answer is close, but not perfect in my opinion: it empties elements, even if a value attribute may want to set it.

On pageload, I do the following. It uses only a little jQuery.

// Reset input elements to their HTML attributes (value, checked)
$("input").each(function(){
    // match checkbox and radiobox checked state with the attribute
    if((this.getAttribute('checked')==null) == this.checked)
        this.checked = !this.checked;
    // reset value for anything else
    else this.value = this.getAttribute('value')||'';
});

// Select the option that is set by the HTML attribute (selected)
$("select").each(function(){
    var opts = $("option",this), selected = 0;
    for(var i=0; i

No jQuery?

Use document.getElementsByTagName to select the inputs and selects, then iterate over them and replace this by the iterated element.
Select the options with .getElementsByTagName('option').