Disable auto complete cache on input fields

I’m really surprised by how hard it was to find this on the net! I was working with a form the other day at work when I had a text field that seems to have a very common name.

Now this isn’t an issue in itself but when I went to type something into this field I was given a big drop down of suggestions from my browser cache as to what I may want to put in this field. This is awesome, but not in this particular case.

So how do we stop this from happening? Simple! autocomplete=”off”

An example:

<input name=”search” id=”search” autocomplete=”off” type=”text” />

It’s that simple! No more annoying auto completion on this fancy input field.