How to prevent Google Chrome suggestion on input?

Question

<div class="customDiv">
    <div class="row text-center">

        <div class="col-sm-5 my-1">
            <div class="input-group input-group-sm">
                <div class="input-group-prepend">
                    <div class="input-group-text">From</div>
                </div>
                <input type="text" name="customFrom" class="form-control" id="customFrom" placeholder="08-21-2019">
            </div>
        </div>

        <div class="col-sm-5 my-1">
            <div class="input-group input-group-sm">
                <div class="input-group-prepend">
                    <div class="input-group-text">To</div>
                </div>
                <input type="text" name="customTo" class="form-control" id="customTo" placeholder="08-21-2019">
            </div>
        </div>

        <div class="col-sm-2 my-1">
            <button id="apply" class="btn btn-success btn-sm ">Apply</button>
        </div>

    </div>

</div>

How do I prevent the Google suggestion ?

`autocomplete="off"` added to the `input` should do the trick. — BenM, Dec 05 '19 at 19:41
I remembered trying those. But I’ll attempt again right now. I’ll share result. — code-8, Dec 05 '19 at 19:42
You can add yourself to chromes bug: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=914451 — some, Dec 05 '19 at 19:48

score 6 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 05 '19 at 19:42

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You can use the autocomplete="off" in the form or the input.

For example

<form method="post" action="/form" autocomplete="off">
[…]
</form>

Documentation: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Security/Securing_your_site/Turning_off_form_autocompletion

However some browsers, and user extensions might not respect that. Another trick can be renaming your input to something that the browser might not recognize, that way it will stop the suggestion.

answered Dec 05 '19 at 19:42

Dvid Silva

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not working ... autocomplete="off" or autocomplete="false" – code-8 Dec 05 '19 at 20:11
Yep @kyo I mentioned in the answer, some times it doesn't work :shrug: – Dvid Silva Dec 06 '19 at 16:48
It works only on old versions of Chrome – Yousef Altaf Feb 02 '21 at 19:55

How to prevent Google Chrome suggestion on input?

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