Prevent corrections and completions in search field #9307
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Purpose
In particular mobile browsers use correction mechanisms on input fields.
Search will often be done with technical terms or even class/method/etc
names that these correction mechanisms do not know, resulting in unwanted
changes. This PR deactivates these correction mechanisms.
Detail
While I haven't been able to find official reference documentation on
these input attributes, there are multiple sources, describing this, e.g.
References:
I did not find official reference docs on autocorrect and autocapitalize, but
they are mentioned in various sources, e.g.
and it works, as can easily be checked with a mobile device on the demos in the above
links.