Chrome: Autocomplete not working on particular input fields

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2013-08
  • Brett Lehrer

    I've run into an issue in Chrome where autocomplete will remember the history of most input boxes, yet fails to save any history in one particular field. Firefox was able to successfully save the history of that field, and Chrome still works with 99% of other fields. Even fields elsewhere on the same form will have their history saved. I'm having a tough time wrapping my head around what would be causing this picky issue.

    Are there any workarounds for this? Has anyone even experienced that problem before?

    EDIT: I was mistaken, Chrome doesn't seem to want to remember ANY fields on this particular site. Firefox has no trouble remembering any text fields in the exact same form. This is in SugarCRM (web-based CRM system), so I can't really post a link. This is the code for the original input box in question though:

    <input type='text' name='ranumber_c' 
id='ranumber_c' size='30' 
maxlength='255' 
value='300149' title='' tabindex='243' >

    Are there any other locations in code that would potentially disable (or break) saving form history?

    EDIT 2: @iglvzx - Interesting, the DOCTYPE is showing XHTML Strict despite nearly all form tags being improperly generated.

    <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">

    Would that actually stop Chrome from recognizing an input field?

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    why don't you use KeePass Password Safe?

    it works with Google Chrome. much safer than storing passwords in a browser.

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