I'm retouching our corporate web site that, among other things, allows
customers to log in and pay their invoices online. I noticed that on the
checkout page, the credit card number textbox autofills with past entries for
that textbox. My development workstation has the Google Toolbar installed;
I'm not sure whether the autofill functionality is native to the browser or
coming from the Google Toolbar.

In either case, is there any way of disabling autofill for a particular
textbox regardless of browser or third-party toolbar? If I can't disable
autofill for an individual control, can I disable it for the whole page?

Thanks,

Andre Ranieri

Andre,

I believe that the behaviour you describe is due to the google toolbar. I
don't use it's autofill feature and don't experience the behaviour on my
company's sites (or any others). I don't know of any way to disable this
behaviour. It would be up to each individual user.

--
Sincerely,

S. Justin Gengo, MCP
Web Developer / Programmer

www.aboutfortunate.com

"Out of chaos comes order."
Nietzsche
"Andre Ranieri" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I'm retouching our corporate web site that, among other things, allows
> customers to log in and pay their invoices online. I noticed that on the
> checkout page, the credit card number textbox autofills with past entries
> for
> that textbox. My development workstation has the Google Toolbar
> installed;
> I'm not sure whether the autofill functionality is native to the browser
> or
> coming from the Google Toolbar.
>
> In either case, is there any way of disabling autofill for a particular
> textbox regardless of browser or third-party toolbar? If I can't disable
> autofill for an individual control, can I disable it for the whole page?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Andre Ranieri

Yes, I think you are correct. The autofill/Complete feature must be under
the control of the user ( or administrator ) as far as I am aware it is not
possible to prevent or enable this using Meta tags for example as this would
constitute a security breach.

I may be wrong, but I doubt it.


Mr N




"S. Justin Gengo" <justin@[no_spam_please]aboutfortunate.com> wrote in
message news:%(E-Mail Removed)...
> Andre,
>
> I believe that the behaviour you describe is due to the google toolbar. I
> don't use it's autofill feature and don't experience the behaviour on my
> company's sites (or any others). I don't know of any way to disable this
> behaviour. It would be up to each individual user.
>
> --
> Sincerely,
>
> S. Justin Gengo, MCP
> Web Developer / Programmer
>
> www.aboutfortunate.com
>
> "Out of chaos comes order."
> Nietzsche
> "Andre Ranieri" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:EC832668-AF75-4910-84FC-(E-Mail Removed)...
>> I'm retouching our corporate web site that, among other things, allows
>> customers to log in and pay their invoices online. I noticed that on the
>> checkout page, the credit card number textbox autofills with past entries
>> for
>> that textbox. My development workstation has the Google Toolbar
>> installed;
>> I'm not sure whether the autofill functionality is native to the browser
>> or
>> coming from the Google Toolbar.
>>
>> In either case, is there any way of disabling autofill for a particular
>> textbox regardless of browser or third-party toolbar? If I can't disable
>> autofill for an individual control, can I disable it for the whole page?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Andre Ranieri
>
>