1256467 - HTML <textarea> element documentation notes autocomplete as an available attribute, but I don't think autocomplete is an available attribute for the HTML <textarea> element.

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Developer Documentation Graveyard :: HTML, defect)

Description

[Mark Bouslog]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_10_5) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/48.0.2564.116 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

Attempted various iterations of <textarea> with autocomplete as detailed: http://codepen.io/mcbouslog/pen/wGoKJd.


Actual results:

The <textarea> did not autocomplete based on previous text entered.


Expected results:

The <textarea> should have provided autocomplete options similar to a input type text element.

Comment 1

[Jean-Yves Perrier [:teoli]]

It is a valid argument: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/forms.html#the-textarea-element

but as it is a hint it doesn't mean browsers have to do something with it.

It isn't implemented in Firefox btw: http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/dom/webidl/HTMLTextAreaElement.webidl

Comment 2

[Eric Shepherd [:sheppy]]

I've checked every browser and none support this attribute yet. The compatibility table on https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/textarea has been updated accordingly.