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HTMLFormElement: autocomplete property

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since ⁨July 2015⁩.

The autocomplete property of the HTMLFormElement interface indicates whether the value of the form's controls can be automatically completed by the browser. It reflects the <form> element's autocomplete attribute.

Value

A string; the value "off" if explicitly set to "off", and otherwise always "on".

Examples

const formElement = document.getElementById("name");
console.log(formElement.autocomplete);

Specifications

Browser compatibility

Desktop Mobile
Chrome Edge Firefox Opera Safari Chrome Android Firefox for Android Opera Android Safari on IOS Samsung Internet WebView Android WebView on iOS
autocomplete 14 12 4 15 6 18 4 14 6 1.0 4.4 6

See also

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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLFormElement/autocomplete