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Prevent browser from filling in stored username/password from LoginForm

Moritz Christian
6 years ago Nov 04, 2016 10:31am

Hi!

In my application I use the LoginForm. This works fine but in my application I have a few more username and password fields which all get automatically filled with those saved credentials from the login form. They are supposed to be empty but setting the value=null or "" doesn't help... I guess it's browser related but I was wondering if anybody knows how to prevent this behaviour in Vaadin? I tried changing the element attributes by using autocomplete="off" but it didn't work. Any other ideas?

Thanks in advance!

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Moritz Christian
6 years ago Nov 11, 2016 12:42pm

I solved it by using a hidden input field... not the most beautiful way but it works for now.

// add hidden text/password-fields to prevent browser from filling in stored username/password anywhere else
Label lblHidden = new Label("<input type='text' style='display:none;'/><input type='password' style='display:none;'/>", ContentMode.HTML);
Thilani Abeysinghege
5 years ago Jun 09, 2017 3:37am

Hi Moritz,
I' m encountering the same issue with Vaadin 8 in Google Chrome. I tried your suggestion.Unfortuanately it seems not working for me with Chrome. Do you have any clue, how to workaround with Chrome

Thanks in advance!

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Moritz Christian
5 years ago Jun 26, 2017 11:34am

I'm also facing this issue again... Firefox wants to refresh the the stored login data in every other dialogue where there are PasswordFields.

Peter Plonus
4 years ago Mar 12, 2018 1:37pm

Moritz Christian:
I'm also facing this issue again... Firefox wants to refresh the the stored login data in every other dialogue where there are PasswordFields.

Did you find a solution for this? Im facing the same issue...

Moritz Christian
4 years ago Mar 12, 2018 1:58pm

no, still struggling with that one!

Lyn Wall
4 years ago Jan 03, 2019 9:54pm

Has anyone found a solution for this? I've tried all of the suggestions with no luck.