How can I get browser to prompt to save password?

Question

Hey, I\'m working on a web app that has a login dialog that works like this:

1. User clicks \"login\"
2. Login form HTML is loaded with AJAX and displayed i

Answer 1

Using a button to login:

If you use a type="button" with an onclick handler to login using ajax, then the browser won't offer to save the password.

Since this form does not have a submit button and has no action field, the browser will not offer to save the password.

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Using a submit button to login:

However, if you change the button to type="submit" and handle the submit, then the browser will offer to save the password.

Using this method, the browser should offer to save the password.

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Here's the Javascript used in both methods:

function login(f){
    var username = f.username.value;
    var password = f.password.value;

    /* Make your validation and ajax magic here. */

    return false; //or the form will post your data to login.php
}