Exactly what I was looking for - thanks a lot

Very nice article... one thing i should mention here that if autocomplete feature is not turned off in a webpage then javascript will not run on some events like on change.So it is must be turned off on such pages performing some mathematical function or some string manipulation.

Thanks!! i have been googling this problem for a while and your note about VS.net underlinign it really helped as well :)

I also spent allot of time googling to find the solution. I can't Thank You enough!

very much thanks for ur help

Hi

I am trying to enable autocomplete , when its off on IE .

Could u please help

Thanks for the artcle.

THANKS. I too have been googling all over for ways to prevent a credit card number from "replayed" on subsequent visits.

The culprit is that unless an actual form submit is fired, then IE will not save your autocomplete values. In my case, I am using linkbuttons and they do not fire a form submit.

A fix is to override the __doPostback javascript function to get autosave values to save.

Ex:

var theform;
if (window.navigator.appName.toLowerCase().indexOf("netscape") > -1) {
theform = document.forms["Form1"];
}
else {
theform = document.Form1;
}

// Override the base __doPostBack function
var orig_doPostBack = __doPostBack;

function pd_PostBack(Param1, Param2)
{
// If IE, we need to explicitly run AutoComplete
// so form values are remembered.
if (document.all)
{
window.external.AutoCompleteSaveForm(theform);
}

// Set back to original __doPostBack.
__doPostBack = orig_doPostBack;
__doPostBack(Param1, Param2);
}
__doPostBack = pd_PostBack;


I also had another jscript function that needed to be overidden as well:

// Override the base WebForm_DoPostBackWithOptions function.
var orig_WebForm_DoPostBackWithOptions = WebForm_DoPostBackWithOptions;

function pd_DoPostBackWithOptions(options)
{
// If IE, we need to explicitly run AutoComplete
// so form values are remembered.
if (document.all)
{
window.external.AutoCompleteSaveForm(theform);
}

// Set back to original WebForm_DoPostBackWithOptions.
WebForm_DoPostBackWithOptions = orig_WebForm_DoPostBackWithOptions;
WebForm_DoPostBackWithOptions(options);
}
WebForm_DoPostBackWithOptions = pd_DoPostBackWithOptions;



This solver the issue for me and was based (and tweaked for my instance) from a MSDN article highlighting the fact that the autosave values are only saved on a submit form.

Folks, this is an IE only issue.

Thnaks!

This works great. It's a pity it breaks XHTML validation though...

I found a simple solution for this. Instead of adding an attribute to each field, you can add it to the form.

Form.Attributes.Add("autocomplete", "off")

Just wanted to make sure this was simple for even the novices to understand.

Thank you! :)

Thanks a lot

Thx

hi,very very thanks for your guid

Hi,
It works well.Thanks a lot.Great Work!

Very helpful if you're using the AJAX AutoCompleteExtender... gives you just autocomplete for the stuff you want, not for browser history.

PERFECT!

I would like to point out that for my asp:TextBox I had to do:
AutoComplet="Disabled"

But thank you very much, was really helpful!

The autocomplete tag attribute sounds great, and it's good to know that we can apply it at form level to the asp.net form.

thank you very much.

That's great, I never thought about Disabling Auto-Complete like that before.

Just written an autocomplete function and really needed to turn this inbuilt solution off. Many thanks.

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