Autocomplete options covering up dropdown options

[malco21]

When filling out a questionnaire after the first time, chrome (maybe other browsers as well) show autocomplete options that cover up the dropdown options. I've tried messing around with the "autocomplete" attribute on the parent form and individual inputs but haven't had any success.

[plynchnlm]

We set autocomplete="off" on those fields precisely for this problem, and that used to work. "off" is the standard means of indicating that. It might be that some non-standard value would work around the problem, but we will have to experiment.

I would guess that if you are getting an autofill option, then you are submitting the form data with a "submit" button. As a work around, you can retrieve the form's data as JSON (see http://lhncbc.github.io/lforms/index.html#userData, or if using FHIR, http://lhncbc.github.io/lforms/index.html#retrieving-fhir-data) and send that to your server via AJAX.

[malco21]

I'll give that a try. Thanks!

[plynchnlm]

Just FYI, I also came across this idea (which I haven't tried yet): https://stackoverflow.com/a/64262948