# Disabling Form Autocompletion **URL:** \ **Category:** programming\ **Created:** [February 9, 2021, 5:55am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/disabling-form-autocompletion/646060 "2021-02-09T05:55:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![kirupa](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/kirupa/32/11616_2.png) [@kirupa](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/kirupa)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2021, 5:55am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/disabling-form-autocompletion/646060/1 "2021-02-09T05:55:50Z")
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at [https://www.kirupa.com/html5/disable\_form\_autocomplete.htm](https://www.kirupa.com/html5/disable_form_autocomplete.htm) ---
**Author:** ![kirupa](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/kirupa/32/11616_2.png) [@kirupa](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/kirupa)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2021, 5:57am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/disabling-form-autocompletion/646060/2 "2021-02-09T05:57:06Z")
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**Author:** ![VaiFanatic](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/vaifanatic/32/7159_2.png) [@VaiFanatic](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/VaiFanatic)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2021, 7:23pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/disabling-form-autocompletion/646060/3 "2021-02-12T19:23:09Z")
Ah yes, this is nice! I can’t even begin to tell all the stories of where someone’s implemented autocompletion ruined the form I was filling out, resulting in me having to do it again. ---
**Author:** ![kirupa](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/kirupa/32/11616_2.png) [@kirupa](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/kirupa)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2021, 1:23am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/disabling-form-autocompletion/646060/4 "2021-02-13T01:23:44Z")
The worst is when certain pages don’t take autocompleted fields as having actually been populated. It requires me to click on each input to have whatever code validates that there is a valid entry to get called 🌋