"Auto-complete" information - Site and response specific - Where's it kept? Chrome/XP

maas

And why it works on some websites and not others is that website creator can put in a line in the webpage telling browsers not to autofil. Some browsers just ignore it though.

Theres autocomplete add ons for Chrome which will probably get around this if you want to get it to work

quoia

maas wrote: »

Im with you now. You can delete them but you cant edit them. They're stored in you profile file in Chrome. THere might be some chrome "Add On"s to access it but it doenst look like there's a option in the settings to get at it.

But if that is the case WHY does it work (properly) with the RSH website but NOT some others ....

WHERE you CAN'T do the same "zaqooooop" test as I've just done ...

BUT instead the "auto-complete" that "DOES WORK" ... is apparently ONLY on data that has not (never!) been entered in this particular "Email" input on this website ?

maas

There are some instances where website would not want autofil, like a questionnaire typically used on a public PC (job centre).

Autocomplete="Off" in the form section in the page tells the browser not to autocomplete this form. There's a setting for passwords not to be remembered as well.

You might just have to live with it :eek:

quoia

maas wrote: »

There are some instances where website would not want autofil, like a questionnaire typically used on a public PC (job centre).

Autocomplete="Off" in the form section in the page tells the browser not to autocomplete this form. There's a setting for passwords not to be remembered as well.

You might just have to live with it :eek:

No you misunderstand.

On these other websites "Auto-complete" DOES WORK mostly

What doesn't work is that it won't learn "zaqooooop" for instance ... (a NEW email address)

AND on these other sites it doesn't try to auto-complete the ones that DO work at RSH. (doesn't remember or offer those as suitable)

BUT IT WILL try to auto-complete an email address that I've entered on a totally different website that's 100% unconnected.

For instance the Daily Mail new site
https://www.mymail.co.uk

won't accept any new ones but does appear to offer me logins I've previously used at

quidco
sky
Yahoo groups

ODD ! :doh: :rotfl:

InsideInsurance

Brave of you to admit to being a Daily Hate reader in a public forum

AutoComplete uses a combination of factors to try and work out what the data field you are trying to complete is asking for and thus will present similar results that it has stored. As others have mentioned, it is possible for them to also add tags to the field to either prevent autocomplete from working at all or to stop it remembering the items you enter on this site.

Because it uses a number of factors its not as straight forward as thinking that just because it brings up email addresses when you start to type into this form that the next form that you use that asks for an email address will automatically include the one you'd just entered on the last form.

The data is stored in Chrome

On RSP I assume you are talking about the log in box in which case the field in question is:
<input name="ctl00$mainContentPlaceHolder$loginControl$EmailAddress" type="text" id="ctl00_mainContentPlaceHolder_loginControl_EmailAddress" class="TextBox" onkeydown="javascript:CallSignInEvent(event, 'ctl00$mainContentPlaceHolder$loginControl$SignInButton', 'ctl00_mainContentPlaceHolder_loginControl_SignInButton');" autocomplete="off">

As you can see from the last item auto complete is turned off by the site for this field. Similarly as they are using ASP.Net the inputbox has a very conveluted name so even if Chrome ignored the autocomplete off attribute it may not identify that this field is actually an email field because the name/ID isnt a nice clean "email"

bod1467

And that's the crux of it ... when form fields are "remembered" by autocomplete even though you've never been there before, it's because the form field names are the same as other sites where you've entered information previously.

Any use? -> https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/142893?hl=en-GB

quoia

InsideInsurance wrote: »

Brave of you to admit to being a Daily Hate reader in a public forum

AutoComplete uses a combination of factors to try and work out what the data field you are trying to complete is asking for and thus will present similar results that it has stored. As others have mentioned, it is possible for them to also add tags to the field to either prevent autocomplete from working at all or to stop it remembering the items you enter on this site.

Because it uses a number of factors its not as straight forward as thinking that just because it brings up email addresses when you start to type into this form that the next form that you use that asks for an email address will automatically include the one you'd just entered on the last form.

The data is stored in Chrome

On RSP I assume you are talking about the log in box in which case the field in question is:
<snip>..................</snip> (MSE apparently won't allow this to be QUOTED)

" autocomplete="off">

As you can see from the last item auto complete is turned off by the site for this field. Similarly as they are using ASP.Net the inputbox has a very conveluted name so even if Chrome ignored the autocomplete off attribute it may not identify that this field is actually an email field because the name/ID isnt a nice clean "email"

Thanks for this.

And I'm ADMITTING NOTHING

But the thing is the Auto Complete for the Email Address Log In box at RedSpottedHanky WORKS PERFECTLY

quoia

bod1467 wrote: »

And that's the crux of it ... when form fields are "remembered" by autocomplete even though you've never been there before, it's because the form field names are the same as other sites where you've entered information previously.

Any use? -> https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/142893?hl=en-GB

That would make sense ...

... remembering/prompting details based on previous responses recorded against a specific (but "commonly used") field name that's NOT tagged to the individual website itself ...

... would explain what happens

Well at least the "spurious" prompting of "erroneous data"

although it's odd that these input fields will attempt auto-complete offering "old data" whilst NOT RECORDING new inputs.

Regards the link ...

yes I had been there before but perhaps not fully digested the contents ....

Fill out a form in one click:
When you start filling out a form, the Autofill entries that match what you're typing appear in a menu.
Select an entry to automatically complete the form with information from the entry.

Google Chrome also saves the text you've typed in specific form fields.
The next time you fill out the same field, text that you've typed in the past appears in a menu.
Just select the text you want to use from the menu to insert it directly into the field.

... although the latter bit isn't exactly crystal clear as to what (or when) it does/doesn't do this and IF this specifically applies to what we are talking about.

quoia

Couldn't quote this in its entirety earlier so had to edit it ...

... don't know how you managed to post it

but it doesn't like the bit in red if there isn't a space in it

InsideInsurance wrote: »

Brave of you to admit to being a Daily Hate reader in a public forum

AutoComplete uses a combination of factors to try and work out what the data field you are trying to complete is asking for and thus will present similar results that it has stored. As others have mentioned, it is possible for them to also add tags to the field to either prevent autocomplete from working at all or to stop it remembering the items you enter on this site.

Because it uses a number of factors its not as straight forward as thinking that just because it brings up email addresses when you start to type into this form that the next form that you use that asks for an email address will automatically include the one you'd just entered on the last form.

The data is stored in Chrome

On RSP I assume you are talking about the log in box in which case the field in question is:
<input name="ctl00$mainContentPlaceHolder$loginControl$EmailAddress" type="text" id="ctl00_mainContentPlaceHolder_loginControl_EmailAddress" class="TextBox" onkeydown="javascript :CallSignInEvent(event, 'ctl00$mainContentPlaceHolder$loginControl$SignInButton', 'ctl00_mainContentPlaceHolder_loginControl_SignInButton');" autocomplete="off">

As you can see from the last item auto complete is turned off by the site for this field. Similarly as they are using ASP.Net the inputbox has a very conveluted name so even if Chrome ignored the autocomplete off attribute it may not identify that this field is actually an email field because the name/ID isnt a nice clean "email"

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I've tried to post just javascript"colon" and it wont !

Indeed you can't even PREVIEW the post

ODD ! :doh:

maas

It is a safety measure in the forum.

Javascript: is active code and it can be used maliciously. You can crash people's computers with it.

So the assumption from the forum is that you are trying to write code and the forum rejects the request.

To write the colon next to javascript and not have the forum intercept it, you have to use HTML code for the colon. Which is

& # 5 8 ;

with no spaces