In my HTML FORMs, when I focus certain text fields they list down history of values entered previously. Is it possible to avoid this auto-drop-down? I am not looking for some browser settings tips for my computer, instead, I want these settings for all of the users of my website filling a form.   Will it also be possible to apply these settings for some selected text fields only? as historical values for some text fields may be helpful for a particular user using his/her machine.  May be this could be achieved using Javascript, but no clue where to start from.   Thanks for your help.  PS: I am using PHP and Javascript (JQuery).
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How do you disable autocomplete in the major browsers for a specific input (or form field)?
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I use Firefox very intensively, and from time to time I clear the browser history. But unfortunately the history is being filled very fast and it always keeps the history I'm not interested in:   Some sites does not make any interest for me at all, and I would like never include them to the history tracker. Other web applications, like Google Reader, use #-links to navigate through the application content, and e.g. for Google Reader the old URLs simply become obsolete because I use "Mark as read". So I don't even see any reason of tracking the #-links in history.   Is there any way/extension/etc to support the features to support either white-lists or black-lists, or particular URL tracking for Firefox? Thanks in advance.
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Do you have experience implementing text inputs or drop-downs in-line with other text or forms? Is this approach any better than just creating a separate field/label?  In the example below the user has the option to indicate when to be reminded again (in one, two, or three days). When they are reminded of an assignment, they simply get an email or text message.
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For example: If I type reddit.com, it autofills it to reddit.com/r/fffffffuuuuuuuuuuu based on my history.  I wanted to go to reddit.com, not F7U12. Any way to turn this off?
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I've come across a few examples recently that do things like:  &lt;dl&gt;   &lt;dt&gt;Full Name:&lt;/dt&gt;   &lt;dd&gt;&lt;input type="text" name="fullname"&gt;&lt;/dd&gt;   &lt;dt&gt;Email Address:&lt;/dt&gt;   &lt;dd&gt;&lt;input type="text" name="email"&gt;&lt;/dd&gt; &lt;/dl&gt;   for doing HTML forms.  Why is that?  What is the advantage over using tables?
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How do I save user-entered line breaks from a &lt;textarea&gt; HTML element to a database?  It always removes the line breaks.
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When a C# WinForms textbox receives focus, I want it to behave like your browser's address bar.  To see what I mean, click in your web browser's address bar. You'll notice the following behavior:    Clicking in the textbox should select all the text if the textbox wasn't previously focused. Mouse down and drag in the textbox should select only the text I've highlighted with the mouse. If the textbox is already focused, clicking does not select all text. Focusing the textbox programmatically or via keyboard tabbing should select all text.   I want to do exactly this in WinForms.  FASTEST GUN ALERT: please read the following before answering! Thanks guys. :-)     Calling .SelectAll() during   the .Enter or .GotFocus events won't   work because if the user clicked the   textbox, the caret will be placed   where he clicked, thus deselecting all   text.      Calling .SelectAll() during the .Click event won't work because the user won't be able to select any text with the mouse; the .SelectAll() call will keep overwriting the user's text selection.      Calling BeginInvoke((Action)textbox.SelectAll) on focus/enter event enter doesn't work because it breaks rule #2 above, it will keep overriding the user's selection on focus.
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Should I use labels for read-only information, or should I use read-only text boxes to maintain the look of the fields?  It seems to me that if something is in a textbox it implies there is some way to edit it, whereas plain text is explicitly read-only.  Update: While my question is similar to , mine is different in that I'm referring to fields that are never editable by anyone. It's not based on the user's rights or role.         &ndash; Wireframes created with
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This is not about system autocomplete, it's about an autocomplete internal to Calendar (autocompletion of the name of the event when you create one) - and is there any way to turn it off.  I have many hundreds of events in ical as I've been using it for about the past five years.     Problem is whenever I create a new event, then start typing in the event name field, as I work out what I want to call the event (or reminder), a giant list of similar past events that I've entered pops up and is annoyingly distracting. I'm simply not interested in those past events anymore and I don't want to know about them. I use ical as a reminders system for tasks, i.e. as a todo list as well as calendar. I find that better than using a separate task app in addition.  I'd love to find a way to turn these suggestions off, without having to delete all past events from my calendar history (which it looks like I might have to resort to).  Haven't found a way to do this but would be very grateful if someone knows how.
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Upon page load I want to move the cursor to a particular field.  No problem.  But I also need to select and highlight the default value that is placed in that text field.
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Some of our form fields have character limits. We're debating whether we should reflect the current size of data entry, or to simply hard-limit and inhibit data entry beyond that size.  In HTML, simple &lt;input&gt; elements can have a maxlength attribute that inhibits further entry, but &lt;textarea&gt; has no built in option. Character limits in &lt;textarea&gt; can easily be imposed via javascript.  Twitter shows the remaining available characters, and will let you type more than that in but shows it as an error (and disables the action button).     We're looking at proactively showing the number of allowed characters for a limited field, and showing the number of characters remaining. If the user exceeds the limit then an inline form invalidation message appears.     A counter argument is that users don't even notice the little numbers updating, and that the user might well end up expending a great deal of effort typing something which they then need to trim.  What are some of the pros and cons of using these character counters?
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Is there a well-supported, common behavior that I can expect if I do something like this in HTML:  &lt;form method="get" action="/somePage.html?param1=foo&amp;param2=foo"&gt;   &lt;input name="param2"&gt;&lt;/input&gt;   &lt;input name="param3"&gt;&lt;/input&gt; &lt;/form&gt;   Seems like this sort of thing is inherently ridiculous, but I've seen it used here and there and I was wondering what on Earth the expected behavior should be.  Are browsers smart enough to tack on "&amp;param2=whatever&amp;param3=whatever" to the action, or do they just throw in a second question mark?  Or what?  Are there cases where this is actually the right way to do things?
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Every time I open a question I get this oh so funny 90s feel with scrollers and whatnots. In every question I need to click it off. The button seems to only work for the specific page I load; loading a different page shows the theme again.  Is this an attempt to keep people from using the site for a few days or how do I tell you "please never ever do anything like this if you want me to keep contributing here"? Yes I have no sense of humor if this is an attempt at that.  How do I turn off "time travel" (also known as "back to the future") mode off permanently, on all questions, and preferably network-wide?
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what is the code to disable an INPUT text box for HTML?  Thanks
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I need to prevent accidental clicks in the Save button when a node is being saved.  I found this   which does exactly this. But the problem is that it uses javascript (jquery). Then if the user disable javascript this module is useless.  My problem is that in my website the user get points when creating nodes, so I have to prevent this in a more secure way.  How can I do this?   What do you think of these ideas?:  1) Maybe I would forbid the node being saved more than one time    programmatically instead of disabling the Save button.   2) Or better: I would allow the user to just save a new node every 5 minutes.
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How exactly do you make an auto-refreshing div with JavaScript (specifically, jQuery)?  I know about the setTimeout method, but is it really a good practice ? Is there a better method?  function update() {     $.get("response.php", function(data) {         $("#some_div").html(data);     });     window.setTimeout("update();", 10000); }
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I know how to delete saved form data in Chrome, but I'd like to be able to see all of the entries stored for fields.   When I type a into a form, I get a list of a few items that I have typed before in that field which begin with a.   I would like to see a complete list, though.