Why is my email showing?

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Shyflower Reply #1, 10 years, 5 months ago

Why is my name and email address showing on the empty comment form? How can I get it to say, "Your Name" and "you@email" or something similar.

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BobRay Reply #2, 10 years, 5 months ago

Do you have a password manager or have the browser set to remember form fills and/or credentials that might be filling them in?

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sottwell Reply #3, 10 years, 5 months ago

You need to check the HTML 5 'placeholder' attribute for form fields. http://www.wufoo.com/html5/attributes/01-placeholder.html

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Shyflower Reply #4, 10 years, 5 months ago

Thanks Bob. I guess it only happened in Google Browser. It isn't in Firefox so it must be some automatic fill when I'm logged in to the manager.

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BobRay Reply #5, 10 years, 5 months ago

It happens to me too, though I don't know if it's the browser or my password manager. It was disturbing at first because I have things set up so that my "handle" is shown instead of my username and the autofill was showing my actual username. wink

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Dan Reply #6, 10 years, 5 months ago

You can include autocomplete="off" in form fields to stop this behaviour. You'll have to way up aesthetics compared to usability.

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