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Dude, autocomplete=off should just work. Chrome does the WRONG THING. Spec says what to do, living spec says what to do - Chrome does whatever they want. It's BS. It breaks the web.

Then chrome Devs say to use autocomplete=something-stupid to get the specification behaviour of 'off' WTF is that?!

Donate to Firefox.

Chrome is the new IE

Or you know, just use Firefox. The only problem right now being that you need to install Dev Edition to get a decent experience (i.e. version 57).

Not for much longer, I think Firefox 57 is schedule for release on November 14th.

MDN? [1] If you want something more official, here is the W3C doc [2]

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/Fo...

[2] https://www.w3.org/wiki/HTML/Elements/input/text

WHATWG is a living standard, HTML5 is not.

A living standard, in the sense meant here, is a contradiction. The entire point of industry standards is to create a stable foundation that everyone can rely on so they can build on top in a compatible way.