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Topic: Password change in form field. Can I Prevent pre-filling it?

i have a Form that allows a user to change password.

I capture NEW PASSWORD
Then I make user RE-ENTER NEW PASSWORD

and then I capture current password.

Works all good.

But.. Sometimes firefox, IE, remembers values.... So on change, instead of being BLANK it is initialized with "****"

I want all 3 PWD to be BLANK on arrival, and to be always be BLANK on any ERROR error.


Am not sure this is even possible.....


Thanks
Rudy

PS, Nice job on forum

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  • Eric
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Re: Password change in form field. Can I Prevent pre-filling it?

Possibly, you could slightly change the naming structure. Instead of "password", you could name it "pass word" or "pass-word" or "*password". Maybe..?

I know if you name input fields something different FX won't pre-fill them. But, in this case, FX is actually remembering it, maybe different?

Last edited by Eric (January 23, 2009 10:52 am)

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Re: Password change in form field. Can I Prevent pre-filling it?

If you include

value=""

in your input, I believe that should automatically clear it whenever the page is loaded... Have you tried that already?

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Re: Password change in form field. Can I Prevent pre-filling it?

falkencreative wrote:

If you include

value=""

in your input, I believe that should automatically clear it whenever the page is loaded... Have you tried that already?

If that works, that's much better than my stupid idea.

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  • Registered: January 22, 2009
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Re: Password change in form field. Can I Prevent pre-filling it?

This maybe a refresh issue being new to html this is what I experienced when working with fields on a browser within my local machine
1. if I add an entry then press Function5 (F5) button my entry remains. 
2. If I make a change to the source file and save (open press space bar)
3. now press F5 button everything clears

Not sure if this is the issue

Last edited by gazdzid (January 23, 2009 5:35 pm)

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  • From: Los Angeles
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Re: Password change in form field. Can I Prevent pre-filling it?

Nope, I gave up on it... have bigger fish to fry.

I guess it has to do with browser setting of auto-fill

If i clear everything in options, then it looks nice...minute i type something in...firefox asks me if i wanna save it.. then it starts all over if i say yes.

I guess the key thing is to use a different form field name, make sure it does not to match the form field name in the login page.

Thanks for the input anyways guys

Rudy

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Re: Password change in form field. Can I Prevent pre-filling it?

script Code:

<script type="text/javascript">
/*<![CDATA[*/
function clearText(field){
          if (field.defaultValue == field.value) field.value = '';
          else if (field.value == '') field.value = field.defaultValue;
      }
/*]]>*/
</script>

HTML code:

<div id="input1">
    <label for="fname">Your First Name:</label>
    <input name="fname" id="fname" type="text" value="required" onfocus="clearText(this)" onblur="clearText(this)" />
  </div>

The onfocus/onblur will empty the text field on focus and replace the default value if it remains empty.

Demo: http://www.jlhaslip.trap17.com/scripts/sticky_redux.php

Try adding you first name and then click on the last name field, then the submit button to see how it works.

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