How to trigger Autofill in Google Chrome?

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Html Problem Overview

I would like to know if there is some kind of special markup to enable the Chrome autofill feature for a specific form. I only found questions about how to disable it, but I would like to know if I can add some kind of markup to the html code in order to tell the browser "this is the input for the address" or "this is the ZIP code field" to correctly fill it in (assumed the user activated this feature).

Html Solutions

Solution 1 - Html

UPDATE for 2017: Looks like the answer from Katie has more up-to-date information than mine. Future readers: give your up-votes to her answer.

This is a great question and one for which documentation is surprisingly hard to come by. Actually, in many cases you will find that the Chrome Autofill functionality "just works." For example, the following snippet of html produces a form which, at least for me (Chrome v. 18), is automatically filled after clicking in the first field:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>    
<form method="post">
  First name:<input type="text" name="fname" /><br />
  Last name: <input type="text" name="lname" /><br />
  E-mail: <input type="text" name="email" /><br />
  Phone: <input type="text" name="phone" /><br />
  Address: <input type="text" name="address" /><br />
</form>
</body>
</html>

However, this answer is unsatisfactory, as it leaves the solution in the realm of "magic." Digging deeper I learned that Chrome (and other autofill-enabled browsers) primarily rely on contextual clues to determine the type of data that should be filled into form elements. Examples of such contextual clues include the name of an input element, the text surrounding the element, and any placeholder text.

Recently, however, the Chrome team acknowledged that this is an unsatisfactory solution, and they have begun pressing for standardization in this matter. A very informative post from the Google Webmasters group recently discussed this issue, explaining:

> Unfortunately, up to now it has been difficult for webmasters to ensure that Chrome and other form-filling providers can parse their form correctly. Some standards exist; but they put onerous burdens on the implementation of the website, so they’re not used much in practice.

(The "standards" they refer to is a more recent verion of the spec mentioned in Avalanchis' answer above.)

The Google post goes on to describe their proposed solution (which is met by significant criticism in the comments of the post). They propose the use of a new attribute for this purpose:

> Just add an attribute to the input element, for example an email address field might look like: > > <input type=”text” name=”field1” x-autocompletetype=”email” />

...where the x- stands for "experimental" and will be removed if & when this becomes a standard. Read the post for more details, or if you want to dig deeper, you will find a more complete explanation of the proposal on the whatwg wiki.

UPDATE: As pointed out in these insightful answers, all the regular expressions Chrome uses to identify/recognize common fields can be found in autofill_regex_constants.cc.utf8. So to answer the original question, just make sure the names for your html fields get matched by these expressions. Some examples include:

  • first name: "first.*name|initials|fname|first$"

  • last name: "last.*name|lname|surname|last$|secondname|family.*name"

  • email: "e.?mail"

  • address (line 1): "address.*line|address1|addr1|street"

  • zipcode: "zip|postal|post.*code|pcode|^1z$"

Solution 2 - Html

This question is pretty old but I have an updated answer!

Here's a link to the WHATWG documentation for enabling autocomplete.

Google wrote a pretty nice guide for developing web applications that are friendly for mobile devices. They have a section on how to name the inputs on forms to easily use auto-fill. Eventhough it's written for mobile, this applies for both desktop and mobile!

How to Enable AutoComplete on your HTML forms

Here are some key points on how to enable autocomplete:

  • Use a <label> for all your <input> fields

  • Add a autocomplete attribute to your <input> tags and fill it in using this guide.

  • Name your name and autocomplete attributes correctly for all <input> tags

  • Example:

     <label for="frmNameA">Name</label>
 <input type="text" name="name" id="frmNameA"
 placeholder="Full name" required autocomplete="name">

 <label for="frmEmailA">Email</label>
 <input type="email" name="email" id="frmEmailA"
 placeholder="[email protected]" required autocomplete="email">

 <!-- note that "emailC" will not be autocompleted -->
 <label for="frmEmailC">Confirm Email</label>
 <input type="email" name="emailC" id="frmEmailC"
 placeholder="[email protected]" required autocomplete="email">

 <label for="frmPhoneNumA">Phone</label>
 <input type="tel" name="phone" id="frmPhoneNumA"
 placeholder="+1-555-555-1212" required autocomplete="tel">

How to name your <input> tags

In order to trigger autocomplete, make sure you correctly name the name and autocomplete attributes in your <input> tags. This will automatically allow for autocomplete on forms. Make sure also to have a <label>! This information can also be found here.

Here's how to name your inputs:

  • Name
    • Use any of these for name: name fname mname lname
    • Use any of these for autocomplete:
      • name (for full name)
      • given-name (for first name)
      • additional-name (for middle name)
      • family-name (for last name)
    • Example: <input type="text" name="fname" autocomplete="given-name">
  • Email
    • Use any of these for name: email
    • Use any of these for autocomplete: email
    • Example: <input type="text" name="email" autocomplete="email">
  • Address
    • Use any of these for name: address city region province state zip zip2 postal country
    • Use any of these for autocomplete:
      • For one address input:
        • street-address
      • For two address inputs:
        • address-line1
        • address-line2
      • address-level1 (state or province)
      • address-level2 (city)
      • postal-code (zip code)
      • country
  • Phone
    • Use any of these for name: phone mobile country-code area-code exchange suffix ext
    • Use any of these for autocomplete: tel
  • Credit Card
    • Use any of these for name: ccname cardnumber cvc ccmonth ccyear exp-date card-type
    • Use any of these for autocomplete:
      • cc-name
      • cc-number
      • cc-csc
      • cc-exp-month
      • cc-exp-year
      • cc-exp
      • cc-type
  • Usernames
    • Use any of these for name: username
    • Use any of these for autocomplete: username
  • Passwords
    • Use any of these for name: password
    • Use any of these for autocomplete:
      • current-password (for sign-in forms)
      • new-password (for sign-up and password-change forms)

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Solution 3 - Html

From my testing, the x-autocomplete tag does nothing. Instead use autocomplete tags on your input tags, and set their values according to the HTML spec here http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/association-of-controls-and-forms.html#autofill-field .

Example:

<input name="fname" autocomplete="given-name" type="text" placeholder="First Name" required>

The parent form tag needs autocomplete="on" and method="POST".

Solution 4 - Html

You need to name the elements appropriately so that the browser will autofill them.

Here's the IETF spec for this:

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3106.txt[1]

Solution 5 - Html

I just played arround with the spec and got a nice working example - including a few more fields.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <title>JS Bin</title>
</head>
<body>
  
  <form autocomplete="on" method="POST">

	<fieldset>
		<legend>Ship the blue gift to...</legend>
		<p>
			<label> Firstname:
<input name="fname" autocomplete="section-blue shipping given-name" type="text"  required>
			</label>
      </p>
		<p>
			<label> Lastname:
<input name="fname" autocomplete="section-blue shipping family-name" type="text" required>
			</label>
      </p>
              
		<p>
			<label> Address: <input name=ba
				autocomplete="section-blue shipping street-address">
			</label>


      </p>
		<p>
			<label> City: <input name=bc
				autocomplete="section-blue shipping address-level2">
			</label>

      </p>
		<p>
			<label> Postal Code: <input name=bp
				autocomplete="section-blue shipping postal-code">
			</label>
      </p>

	</fieldset>
	<fieldset>
		<legend>Ship the red gift to...</legend>
		<p>
			<label> Firstname:
<input name="fname" autocomplete="section-red shipping given-name" type="text" required>
			</label>
      </p>
      
		<p>
			<label> Lastname:
<input name="fname" autocomplete="section-red shipping family-name" type="text" required>
			</label>
      </p>
		<p>
			<label> Address: <input name=ra
				autocomplete="section-red shipping street-address">
			</label>
      </p>


		<p>
			<label> City: <input name=bc
				autocomplete="section-red shipping address-level2">
			</label>

      </p>

		<p>
			<label> Postal Code: <input name=rp
				autocomplete="section-red shipping postal-code">
			</label>
      </p>

	</fieldset>
    
    	<fieldset>
		<legend>payment address</legend>
		<p>
			<label> Firstname:
<input name="fname" autocomplete="billing given-name" type="text" required>
			</label>
      </p>
      
		<p>
			<label> Lastname:
<input name="fname" autocomplete="billing family-name" type="text" required>
			</label>
      </p>
		<p>
			<label> Address: <input name=ra
				autocomplete="billing street-address">
			</label>
      </p>


		<p>
			<label> City: <input name=bc
				autocomplete="billing address-level2">
			</label>

      </p>

		<p>
			<label> Postal Code: <input name=rp
				autocomplete="billing postal-code">
			</label>
      </p>

	</fieldset>
	<input type="submit" />
</form>

</body>
</html>

JSBIN

It contains 2 separate address areas and also differen address-types. Tested it also on iOS 8.1.0 and it seems that it always fill all fields at once, while desktop chrome autofill address by address.

Solution 6 - Html

Looks like we'll get more control about this autofill feature, there is a new experimental API coming to Chrome Canary, which can be used to access the data after asking the user for it:

http://www.chromium.org/developers/using-requestautocomplete http://blog.alexmaccaw.com/requestautocomplete

new infos by google:

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.de/2015/03/helping-users-fill-out-online-forms.html

https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/input/form/label-and-name-inputs#use-metadata-to-enable-auto-complete

Solution 7 - Html

Here it is the real answer:

The only difference is in the label itself. The "Nom" cames from "Name" or "Nome" in portuguese.

So here is what you need:

  • A form wrapper;
  • A <label for="id_of_field">Name</label>
  • An <input id="id_of_field"></input>

Nothing more.

Solution 8 - Html

Google now provides documentation for this:

Help users checkout faster with Autofill | Web | Google Developers

and

Create Amazing Forms: Use metadata to enable auto-complete | Web | Google Developers

Solution 9 - Html

Here is the new list of Google Autofill "names". There are all the supported names in any allowed language.

autofill_regex_constants.cc

Solution 10 - Html

In my case, $('#EmailAddress').attr('autocomplete', 'off'); is not worked. But following works on chrome Version 67 by jQuery.

$('#EmailAddress').attr('autocomplete', 'new-email');
$('#Password').attr('autocomplete', 'new-password');
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