Text Field Cache 3

[sRockyHill]

Please help us with this one.....
How do you dispose of information in a text field cache?

 

[Genimuse]

At the top of the page put:

<%Response.Expires = -1%>

to keep the page from being cached.

 

[sRockyHill]

This is web form vb.aspx.net page. We have a text field of Zipcode that onchange we would like to get a town in the next field. It works when I enter a zipcode and tab it to the next field. However it will not work if I select from the cached zipcodes.

 

[Genimuse]

Ah, you don't mean the page cache, then, but rather the AutoComplete feature of IE.

First, it's really weird that it has a problem with autocompleted data. My guess is that it must somehow not be triggering some Javascript on the client that needs to be run (though I know almost nothing about ASP.NET -- Forum855, btw).

The only way I know to overcome AutoComplete is to not provide a form field name that the browser recognizes. For example, if your zip code form field name is "zip" then anything the user has ever entered in a form field called "zip" will be available via autocomplete. If, however, the form field was called "zip8378378490" and you used a different random number (or incremented number) every time, there'd be nothing to grab autocomplete info from. Also in the form hide a form field that contains the number appended to field names on the page, so that you'll know what to refer to on the server after submission.

Which is a fair bit of work, certainly, if your problem is a bit of Javascript. The paragraph above is a nifty solution (imo, tooting my own horn) for more dire AutoComplete problems (like forms where users enter sensitive information), but might be a bit much for your little problem. I suggest asking the question over on the ASP.NET forum first.

 

[ahmun]

Interesting... a search from Google on [blue]disabling autocomplete with asp" brought up a good article from Microsoft:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...r/dhtml/reference/properties/autocomplete.asp

It will only work for later browsers, but then again... only later browsers have autocomplete, right?

For IE 5.0 and above, add the following tag to each of your form textfield <input> tags:

<input autocomplete="off" type="text" name="textfield">

Earnie Eng

 

[ahmun]

BTW... this only works for Microsoft's IE browser... don't know about Netscrape

Earnie Eng

 

[Genimuse]

Y'know, it's funny... I knew about that, but for some reason didn't remember it!

Yeah, use that!!!

 

[ahmun]

heh... sorry for the bad use of the tgml tag...

thanks for the star!

Earnie Eng