Disable autocomplete on textfield in Django?

If you are defining your own forms, you can add attributes to your fields in the form.

class CommentForm(forms.Form):
    name = forms.CharField(widget=forms.TextInput(attrs={
        'autocomplete':'off'
    }))

If you are using modelforms, you won't have the luxury of defining field attributes in the form. However, you can use __init__ to add required attributes.

class CommentForm(forms.ModelForm):
    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        super(CommentForm, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
        self.fields['name'].widget.attrs.update({
            'autocomplete': 'off'
        })

You can also add attributes from Meta

class CommentForm(forms.ModelForm):
    class Meta:
        widgets = {
            'name': TextInput(attrs={'autocomplete': 'off'}),
        }

In your form, specify the widget you want to use for the field, and add an attrs dictionary on that widget. For example (straight from the django documentation):

class CommentForm(forms.Form):
    name = forms.CharField(
                widget=forms.TextInput(attrs={'class':'special'}))
    url = forms.URLField()
    comment = forms.CharField(
               widget=forms.TextInput(attrs={'size':'40'}))

Just add 'autocomplete': 'off' to the attrs dict.

Add the autocomplete="off" to the form tag, so you don't have to change the django.form instance.

<form action="." method="post" autocomplete="off"> {{ form }} </form>