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  • Lucy 3 posts 73 karma points
    Jun 30, 2024 @ 11:45
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    Disable auto-fill of passwords for Clients

    Is there a way of preventing auto-fill of username/password on client browsers? Website has two different account types – one for teachers, one for students. Browsers autofill teacher logins on student area – doesn't let them log in – but causes confusion. I want to prevent browsers doing this.

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  • Huw Reddick 1932 posts 6722 karma points MVP 2x c-trib
    Jul 01, 2024 @ 08:24
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    Good luck with that :D

    Seriosly, it is not as easy as you would think.

    If you want to prevent autofilling of password fields, you can use autocomplete="new-password".

    However, this is a hint, which browsers are not required to comply with.

    What I have done in the past is use some javascript on load which sets the value of the password field to an empty string

    let login = document.querySelector('#inputLogin');
let password = document.querySelector('#inputPassword');

function setLogin () {
     login.value = '';
     password.value = '';
}
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  • Lucy 3 posts 73 karma points
    Jul 01, 2024 @ 08:26
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    Thank you so much. We'll give that a go.

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  • Arun 144 posts 407 karma points
    Jul 01, 2024 @ 09:20
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    Hi Lucy,

    Are you using Umbraco form or custom form?

    Have you tried attributes like aria-autocomplete="none" autocomplete="off" etc

    Regards

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  • Huw Reddick 1932 posts 6722 karma points MVP 2x c-trib
    Jul 01, 2024 @ 09:27
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    autocomplete=off is ignored by chrome

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  • Arun 144 posts 407 karma points
    Jul 01, 2024 @ 12:42
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    Hi Huw,

    Yes, I've checked this and understand Chrome ignore this attribute now!

    Finally I was able to avoid this issue by adding autocomplete="username", autocomplete="new-password" to the respective fields.

    Thanks.

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  • Huw Reddick 1932 posts 6722 karma points MVP 2x c-trib
    Jul 01, 2024 @ 12:44
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    autocomplete="new-password" may also get ignored by some browsers unfortunately :(

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  • Lucy 3 posts 73 karma points
    Jul 01, 2024 @ 15:32
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    Thank you for all your suggestions here – and for letting me know about the browsers ignoring different attributes – particularly annoying.

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