Text_field_with_auto_complete Vs a browsers autocomplete fun

In the demo at http://demo.script.aculo.us/ajax/autocompleter_customized
the input firld generated by text_field_with_auto_complete has an
autocomplete attribute set to off, which stops the browser using it’s
own auto complete function, but when I use it, that attribute is now
there and Firefox’s version gets in the way.

I’ve tried adding :autocomplete => “off” as an option, but that didn’t
work, what am I missing?

Cheers

-S

I would expect it to automatically add that attribute. However if
it’s not working then check out the defintion of the
text_field_with_auto_complete method:

text_field_with_auto_complete(object, method, tag_options = {},
completion_options = {})

Note that the autocomplete=“off” would belong in the tag_options,
which means you would have explicitly wrap it in curly braces to
separate it from the completion_options. Or, the opposite problem
would be that you are clobbering the autocomplete attribute that is
included by default which would be solved by putting a blank
tag_options in. What does your code look like?

On May 20, 2:39 pm, Stuart Grimshaw [email protected]

On May 21, 1:35 am, dasil003 [email protected] wrote:

would be that you are clobbering the autocomplete attribute that is
included by default which would be solved by putting a blank
tag_options in. What does your code look like?

<%= text_field_with_auto_complete :vendor, :postcodes,
{ “autocomplete” => ‘off’ }, :skip_style => true %>

That is the field in question …

I pasted that into one of my views and change the model/method name
and it worked. autocomplete=“off” was the first attribute of the
input tag.

Are you on Rails 1.2.3 and do you have any plugins that much around
with the internals?

On May 21, 11:42 am, Stuart Grimshaw [email protected]

Take the plugins out and see if it works. If not, start a new
application and just copy the view code in and see if it works.

On May 29, 11:59 am, Stuart Grimshaw [email protected]

On May 21, 8:43 pm, dasil003 [email protected] wrote:

I pasted that into one of my views and change the model/method name
and it worked. autocomplete=“off” was the first attribute of the
input tag.

Are you on Rails 1.2.3 and do you have any plugins that much around
with the internals?

stuart@shearer:~$ ruby -v
ruby 1.8.6 (2007-03-13 patchlevel 0) [i486-linux]
stuart@shearer:~$ rails -v
Rails 1.2.3

and vendor/plugins contins:

foreign_key_migrations/ redhillonrails_core/
simple_http_auth/ transactional_migrations/

On May 29, 11:56 pm, dasil003 [email protected] wrote:

Take the plugins out and see if it works. If not, start a new
application and just copy the view code in and see if it works.

The problem is being caused by Sxipper (http://www.sxipper.com), when
it is enabled, the autocomplete attribute of the field gets removed,
however with the plugin switched off, the autocomplete attribute
remains in place.

I’ll raise a bug with the Sxipper team, as I don’t see how this could
(or should?) be handled by the Ruby devs.

Thanks for your help this far Dasil003

-S