Chrome ignores autocomplete=“off”

Question

I\'ve created a web application which uses a tagbox drop down. This works great in all browsers except Chrome browser (Version 21.0.1180.89).

Despite both the

Answer 1

I just updated to Chrome 49 and Diogo Cid's solution doesn't work anymore.

I made a different workaround hiding and removing the fields at run-time after the page is loaded.

Chrome now ignores the original workaround applying the credentials to the first displayed type="password" field and its previous type="text" field, so I have hidden both fields using CSS visibility: hidden;

    
    
    

    
    



.chromeHack-autocomplete {
    height: 0px !important;
    width: 0px !important;
    opacity: 0 !important;
    padding: 0 !important; margin: 0 !important;
}


jQuery(window).load(function() {
    $(".chromeHack-autocomplete").delay(100).hide(0, function() {
        $(this).remove();
    });
});

I know that it may seem not very elegant but it works.