# Disabling the vanilla auto-complete

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/disabling-the-vanilla-auto-complete/113218>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [August 28, 2007, 11:13pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/disabling-the-vanilla-auto-complete/113218 "2007-08-28T23:13:28Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![soroe](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/f9ae1b/32.png) [@soroe](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/soroe)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2007, 11:13pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/disabling-the-vanilla-auto-complete/113218/1 "2007-08-28T23:13:28Z")

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Hey Guys,

Does anyone know how to disable the brower’s auto-complete feature? I’d  
like some of my text input fields to _not_ display a drop-down list of  
past entries.

Sonny.

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**Author:** ![soroe](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/f9ae1b/32.png) [@soroe](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/soroe)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2007, 11:44pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/disabling-the-vanilla-auto-complete/113218/2 "2007-08-28T23:44:52Z")

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> Does anyone know how to disable the brower’s auto-complete feature? I’d  
> like some of my text input fields to _not_ display a drop-down list of  
> past entries.

Google knows…

[http://www.google.com/search?q=html+auto+complete](http://www.google.com/search?q=html+auto+complete)

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**Author:** ![soroe](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/f9ae1b/32.png) [@soroe](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/soroe)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2007, 11:50pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/disabling-the-vanilla-auto-complete/113218/3 "2007-08-28T23:50:33Z")

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Philip H. wrote:

> > Does anyone know how to disable the brower’s auto-complete feature? I’d  
> > like some of my text input fields to _not_ display a drop-down list of  
> > past entries.
> 
> Google knows…
> 
> [html auto complete - Google Search](http://www.google.com/search?q=html+auto+complete)

Gratzi! I had asked Google… but apparently the wrong question (search  
terms: auto+complete+css) earlier when my search came up empty.

Sonny.

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**Author:** ![soroe](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/f9ae1b/32.png) [@soroe](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/soroe)\
**Post date:** [July 23, 2008, 1:10pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/disabling-the-vanilla-auto-complete/113218/4 "2008-07-23T13:10:31Z")

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Sonny C. wrote:

> Philip H. wrote:
> 
> > > Does anyone know how to disable the brower’s auto-complete feature? I’d  
> > > like some of my text input fields to _not_ display a drop-down list of  
> > > past entries.
> > 
> > Google knows…
> > 
> > [html auto complete - Google Search](http://www.google.com/search?q=html+auto+complete)
> 
> Gratzi! I had asked Google… but apparently the wrong question (search  
> terms: auto+complete+css) earlier when my search came up empty.
> 
> Sonny.

Was this sorted out!  
R the issue still existing?