# New post/reply sometimes tries to autocomplete my address on Chrome

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-post-reply-sometimes-tries-to-autocomplete-my-address-on-chrome/107484
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [25 januari 2019 om 00:54 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-post-reply-sometimes-tries-to-autocomplete-my-address-on-chrome/107484 "2019-01-25T00:54:32Z")
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### Author: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [19 februari 2019 om 23:59 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-post-reply-sometimes-tries-to-autocomplete-my-address-on-chrome/107484/69 "2019-02-19T23:59:44Z")

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Yeah to be blunt Chrome are violating:

> **[4.10.19.7 Autofill - HTML Standard](https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/form-control-infrastructure.html#autofill)**
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> Living Standard — Last Updated 1 June 2026

Which specifies in black-and-white-and-red-and-blue:

> When wearing the [autofill expectation mantle](https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/form-control-infrastructure.html#autofill-expectation-mantle), the `autocomplete` attribute, if specified, must have a value that is an ordered [set of space-separated tokens](https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/common-microsyntaxes.html#set-of-space-separated-tokens) consisting of either a single token that is an [ASCII case-insensitive](https://infra.spec.whatwg.org/#ascii-case-insensitive) match for the string " `off` ", or a single token that is an [ASCII case-insensitive](https://infra.spec.whatwg.org/#ascii-case-insensitive) match for the string " `on` ", or [autofill detail tokens](https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/form-control-infrastructure.html#autofill-detail-tokens).

[The reasoning by Google](https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=468153#c164) is that they no longer trust developers with `off` so they ignore it. This is user hostile, standards hostile, and the list goes on.

If other browsers (aka. Firefox) stumble with `autocomplete="discourse"` I will revert this so the community can take it up with Chrome.

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