254341 - autocomplete="off" cannot be set using javascript

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect)

Description

[Adrian Yee]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Firefox/0.9.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Firefox/0.9.1

Using javascript to set the autocomplete="off" form property doesn't work in
Firefox (and I'm assuming Mozilla in general).  However, setting
autocomplete="off" in the form, does disable autocompletion.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
Turn on autocomplete in Firefox/Mozilla, and submit the form.
Actual Results:  
autocomplete is not disabled

Expected Results:  
autocomplete should be disabled.  Click on the link at the bottom to see correct
behaviour.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

You're setting the _property_, whereas you should be setting the _attribute_
(using setAttribute()).

Not all attributes are mapped into properties; in particular, any attributes
that are not part of standard HTML are NOT mapped into properties.

Comment 2

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

*** Bug 273911 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***