Chrome Autofill covers Autocomplete for Google Maps API v3

jQuery solution:

$('#address').focus(function() {
    $(this).attr('autocomplete', 'new-password');
});

Thanks to GSTAR. Instead of Jquery, I used the below code & this worked for me

<input type="text" value="" id="address" class="form-control" placeholder="Enter a location" autocomplete="new-password" onfocus="this.setAttribute('autocomplete', 'new-password');">

This was driving me totally crazy as well. Have the same issue. We use scripting to pull up field values for a user to select from and DO NOT want the browser's auto-whatever to mess this up. Chrome seems to be the bugger (latest version 42.0.2311.135 m), Firefox (FF) we can work with.

So, we have to deal with the browser's autocomplete AND Chrome's autofill as well. If I add: <form autocomplete="off"> at the top then it stops the autocomplete in FF and Chrome but not the AUTOFILL in Chrome. Changing 'off' to 'false' does nothing for either browser. Solved the FF issue but not Chrome as it shows the ugly AUTOFILL box over content.

If you add autocomplete="off" to each of the fields individually then again, works in FF but for the input fields that have this attribute autocomplete in Chrome is off but the autofill still rears its ugly head.

Now, the odd thing is that if you change the value in the individual input field from "off" to "false" then it seems to shake Chrome up and for the field you have this set to autocomplete="false" then you ONLY see the autocomplete values (if anything was entered in the field before) and all the other input fields show nothing! You can also set this value to no or xx or whatever and seems like Chrome barfs on the invalid value for autocomplete and the form reacts strangely. If you have 5 fields and set this for the third field then fields 1,2, 4 and 5 are blank but field 3 shows autocomplete.

This is an example for you to copy and mess with (try moving the autocomplete attribute to different fields and see how it reacts) :

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>

<head>
  <title>Signup</title>
</head>

<body>
  <form autocomplete="off" method="post">
    First name:
    <input name="Firstname" type="text">
    <br />Last name:
    <input name="Lastname" type="text" style="width: 124px">
    <br />Address:
    <input autocomplete="false" name="Address" type="text" style="width: 383px">
    <br />Phone number:
    <input name="Phone" type="text">
    <br />E-mail:
    <input name="Email" type="text" style="width: 151px">
    <br />
    <input type="submit">
  </form>
</body>

</html>

My solution to turn off both autocomplete and Chrome's autofill (you should be able to put the hidden input field at the top or bottom below the submit). Add this <input autocomplete="false" name="hidden" type="text" style="display:none;"> to the code:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>

<head>
  <title>Signup</title>
</head>

<body>
  <form autocomplete="off" method="post">
    <input autocomplete="false" name="hidden" type="text" style="display:none;">
    <br />First name:
    <input name="Firstname" type="text">
    <br />Last name:
    <input name="Lastname" type="text" style="width: 124px">
    <br />Address:
    <input name="Address" type="text" style="width: 383px">
    <br />Phone number:
    <input name="Phone" type="text">
    <br />E-mail:
    <input name="Email" type="text" style="width: 151px">
    <br />
    <input type="submit">
  </form>
</body>

</html>

Bottom line: Chrome does adhere to the autocomplete=off but the autofill of Chrome is the problem. Hope this helps.


None of the above answers worked for me (Chrome 64.0.3282.186, x64 windows).

TL;DR: The Google Maps code is changing the autocomplete attribute to off, so even if you set it to new-password, you'll still get autofill. The hack I'm using is to listen for mutations on that attribute and then override it. Note: simply changing the attribute after calling into Google Maps does not work.

Set up a MutationObserver before initializing Google Maps Autocomplete that immediately stops listening for mutations and then sets the attribute to new-password.

    var autocompleteInput = document.getElementById("id-of-element");

    var observerHack = new MutationObserver(function() {
        observerHack.disconnect();
        $("#id-of-element").attr("autocomplete", "new-password");
    });

    observerHack.observe(autocompleteInput, {
        attributes: true,
        attributeFilter: ['autocomplete']
    });

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