md-autocomplete type="search" (Chrome autofill behavior)

[kuhnroyal]

I have a md-autocomplete which retrieves zip codes. The autocomplete="off" does not prevent the Chrome autofill settings for adresses etc. thus rendering the box pretty much useless since one can not select the results.

Also see https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=468153

Chrome seems to detect that by means of the labeland name attribute, so this happens when a md-floating-label with address-type name is used e.g. Zip/Street etc.

I have been reading a little bit in the HTML spec and maybe the input fields in md-autocomplete should have the type="search". This would as far as I can tell prevent the chrome autofill popup.

If for some reason the is not generally wanted, md-autocomplete should at least allow to override the type attribute and maybe even the autocomplete attribute.

https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/forms.html#autofill
https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/forms.html#text-(type=text)-state-and-search-state-(type=search)

[epelc]

@kuhnroyal See #2457 @robertmesserle gave a good work around from the chrome team.

[kuhnroyal]

Thanks, must have missed that issue.
My search field is wrapped in a form and the form also has autocomplete="off".

Setting type="search" suppresses the autofill and it should be allowed to at least override it if not even be the default.

[epelc]

@kuhnroyal I just realized that type="search" is essentially a working autocomplete="off".

This should definitly be the default. I can't think of any situation where someone would want an autocomplete to be autofilled with the browsers ui. @ThomasBurleson what do you think?

[kuhnroyal]

Yea that's what I was trying to communicate :)

[ThomasBurleson]

@kuhnroyal, @epelc - totally agree. In fact see #2802 (comment) for agreement.

[gkalpak]

Everyone seems to think otherwise, but setting type="search" is quite arbitrary imo and at least unexpected 😕

[robertmesserle]

@gkalpak It is, but it sounds like it is the only real workaround for Chrome's aggressive autofill feature. It also seems somewhat fitting for autocomplete, since it is essentially searching for matches.