How to cancel edit/disable cached input (of type text) value?

autocomplete, caching, html, javascript, textinput

Solution

As @John pointed out, on modern browsers you can use the HTML5 valid `autocomplete` attribute, in your screenshot I see many textboxes, if you want to disable autocompletion on the whole form you can set this attribute directly at the `form` element:

<form name="form1" id="form1" method="post" autocomplete="off"
  action="http://www.example.com/form.action">
[...]
</form>

More info:

- How to Turn Off Form Autocompletion

Problem

I have an input of type `text`, from which I have already entered value `1234` it has been saved in cache as shown below. The problem here is that, it is extremely frustrating to select the textbox in the next row. Is there a way to not to display that `12334` (highlighted in the screenshot) from ever being displayed through HTML markup or javascript?

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