Reply To: Text field: Disable browser's autocomplete

• fabrizim

• January 15, 2019 at 12:46 pm

This has bothered me too, especially in Chrome, because most places you would a password field are not something that would autofill for the site (login, etc). Chrome will automatically try to fill in the password, which removes the existing value. This creates a situation where you can’t save the existing password without disabling autofill in the browser.

To overcome this, here is a quick patch you can put in your functions.php file.

add_action( 'acf/render_field/type=password', function(){
    ob_start();
}, 8);
add_action( 'acf/render_field/type=password', function(){
   return str_replace( '<input ', '<input autocomplete="new-password" ', ob_get_clean() );
}, 10);

I think this attribute should be part of the core password field to avoid the situation described above as it is one that I run into with a lot of my clients.

-Mark