How can I stop IE from giving the option to save a username / password

[Angela Poynton]

IE has the capability to give the user the option to have it "remember" and username and password once you have entered it once. I know the user can turn this function off themselves on their browser. But...
This has been seen as a potential security risk by my company and I need to know if there's anything I can put into my login form (probably javascript) that will stop the user being given that choice and ensure that IE hasn't saved the login ID.

[SRINI VASAN]

hai,
IE will not help in the case. one easier idea is to go for netscape :-)
regards,
srini

[Angela Poynton]

Unfortunatly we can't tell the millions of people who visit our site which browser to use
What I want to know if is there is a way to programmatically (through javascript) stop IE from remembering what the users enters into the login form so that the auto-complete function (if enabled by the user) doesn't automatically fill in the form next time they try to log in!!

[xavier romea]

probably in the IE preferences... I don't think it's possible with a javascript function.

[Angela Poynton]

i found a solution and it was much easier than I thought.
there is an attribute which you can use with the <FORM> tag called autocomplete.
So <FORM method="POST" autocomplete="off" ..> stops IE from autocompleting the whole form. I'm not sure if it can be used for individual input fields as well but I expect so!!

[Randall Twede]

Angela,
Thanks for sharing your solution. I hate it when someone just says "never mind I solved it myself" and doesnt tell you the solution

[SRINI VASAN]

Hi ,
Thanx for sharing the solution .. I thought it is not possible..Sorry for teh wrong advice
regards,
srini