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Stop auto complete on web forms

Posted on Thursday, October 21st, 2010 in Top Tips

On web forms the browser stores previously typed in data and if you start typing in the same data a dropdown list appears below with these options. Sometimes this can be annoying and gets in the way when you use the form regularly with unique data each time. To turn this function off on selected form elements use the following code:

<input type="text" value="test text" autocomplete="off" />

Use the attribute in the input element autocomplete with the value off to stop the drop down list appearing.


Conditional comments

Posted on Thursday, September 23rd, 2010 in Web Development

Using the HTML IF condition to load in the appropriate CSS for the client’s browser. Importantly the conditional comment only work for Internet Explorer, but can be used to detect the different versions. This is very useful because all of the IE browsers render CSS and HTML differently, which is why it can be so challenging make a site work the same across browsers. Read more



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