How to turn off autocomplete while keep using datalist element in html

Question

I have a input field which shows a list using html5 element. The problem is that with the browser au

Answer 1

Is it possible for you to use the input field without an id or name attribute? Without that, the browser doesn't really have any way to associate a history with that element.

In my real quick testing on Firefox, this seemed to do the trick:

  
  With id: 

  With name: 


  
  No id, name, class: 

  With class: 

  

  


  

In the code above, the inputs with an id or name would remember past values, but the input without anything and the input with just a class would not remember anything.

Unfortunately, this does make using the input slightly more difficult if you need it to have a name or id. In that case, I'd try having an id'ed input which is also display: none'ed and then use some JavaScript to keep it in sync with an input that won't remember past values.