Autocomplete and wombat

[wcw]

This may be a browser thing but I don't see how. I setup Power Search in a RC2, CSSUI, MivaSQL test store at http://www.pinemporium.com/SRCH.html I did not put in any code for autocomplete as that was not the purpose of the stuff I am working on. So I really didn't think about it not having autocomplete on the search input yesterday.

Well, today I broke out the netbook to do backups and get its anti-virus software up to date after seeing the McAfee alert this morning. While running the virus checker I browsed around and hit the search (link above) a few times. But for some reason, it is displaying previously entered terms in a drop down under the input. I am using the same browser version on both computers. I could not find a setting for autocomplete under options. Does anybody know anything about this?

The problem is that it shows misspellings in its list because it just saves every entry. I'd rather use the autocomplete that I setup in my other test stores which uses json to retrieve only valid search terms that returned results in the past.

How do I turn off the autocomplete with the current Firefox and Wombat?

[Nerd Boy Inc]

Re: Autocomplete and wombat

Dear Bill,

It is an HTML thing. I have brought this up to Miva Merchant already.

http://www.htmlcodetutorial.com/form...OCOMPLETE.html

[wcw]

Re: Autocomplete and wombat

But I can't find it turned on anywhere in the form or css sheet. Also, why is the same version of the browser (firefox 3.6.3) working differently on two different computers? Definitely bad in this scenario due to all the misspellings.

[Nerd Boy Inc]

Re: Autocomplete and wombat

Dear Bill,

Based on the first paragraph of the link I sent you, you have been somewhere with the same Field Name. So all sites that use a Field Name with Auto Complete on will be On for any site:

Autocompletion, which was first introduced by Microsoft Internet Explorer, is the browser feature of remembering what you entered in previous text form fields with the same name. So, for example, if the field is named name and you had entered several variants of your name in other fields named name, then autocompletion provides those options in a dropdown.

[wcw]

Re: Autocomplete and wombat

Oh, I get it now. So the other computer had encountered a "search" input with autocomplete=ON, but not my main computer. So if I put autocomplete=OFF in miva merchant, should it turn it back off? Something like
<input type="text" name="Search" id="Search" class="textfield" value="&mvte:global:Search;" autocomplete=OFF />

[Nerd Boy Inc]

Re: Autocomplete and wombat

Dear Bill,

Yes, this is my understanding of how it works.

[Siamese-Dream.Com]

Re: Autocomplete and wombat

Also, why is the same version of the browser (firefox 3.6.3) working differently on two different computers?

do you have the same plugins enabled in firefox on both computers? I found that some of them were messing up FF 3.6.3 on my computers and had to disable them (Firebug and java console in particular).