Also there is another way that can defeat the autofill (if your intent really is to defeat it and not just hide the yellow). The toolbar seems to analyze the text within a label element first if you have one. This helps to constrain the toolbar’s AI. Then for each of the magic keywords, like “name” or “email”, you can insert an empty element inside the word’s letters, such as:


<label for="x">Your n<i></i>ame</label>
<input id="x" type="text" />
</input>

It’s not perfect, because screen readers may stumble on the word. But visually it will look fine. Another thing to perhaps try (if you don’t care about non-visual browsers at all) is to create an empty label element for the input field, and put the text of your real label elsewhere.

If you have the google toolbar and have filled in the autofill options you will notice that the first field is yellow, if you activate the autofill this field inserts your email address.

As per my previous message, whatever field is first gets the treatment, If I put the date field first, it happens to the date.

I have also discovered that if I name another field as per the recommendations at http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3106.txt, which is what google advises to do, then the autofill function fails to work at all (it appears gray on the toolbar) and no fields are yellow, you can see where I have done this at http://www.travelwild.com.au/10daa/book2.html where I have named the card field Ecom_Payment_Card_Number

Although this is a solution of sorts and solves my immediate problem, something is definitely not right.

Can you give us a URL that shows your problem, that would make fixing and helping a lot easier.

Tim

Can anyone help with my following problem?

I have a field in a form which is highlighted by autofill, yet the field has a unique name, even if I change or completely remove the name it still comes up yellow, If I use the auto fill function it then replaces the default value in the field with my email address?

Thanks for any thoughts

Tim