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Ruby on Rails, autocomplete => "off" in text input fields, not working on Firefox

I have both a text_field and a text_area in Rails, and I want to disable the browser's auto-complete. Setting the attribute in either the text_field, text_area, or in the form itself, doesn't seem to make the browser stop trying to auto-complete. This is for Firefox 3.6.3 on OS X. Maybe it's more a browser issue than a RoR issue.

Thanks!

Solution

  • What's the view source on your page look like? I tried this in FF 3.6.3 OSX and it worked.

    <html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<form>
  <input type="text" name="name" autocomplete="off"/>
</form>
</body>
</html>

    Taking out the autocomplete made it autocomplete. Maybe you have a plugin overriding the default behavior.