Hello all,
I had posted a question on Stack Overflow previously, but have not seen any
activity on it for a while. Since this problem deals with specific Android
devices, I thought I might try here as well. Original question can be found
at:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15298890/turn-off-predictive-text-for-password-field-on-websites
To summarize that post, my Android app has a webview which loads a login
screen. I'm finding that auto-correct options on the default (Samsung 4.1)
keyboard are causing incorrect entries in the password field when
punctuation is involved. eg: "ab!d" gets auto corrected to "ab! d".
I have tried using the <input type="password"> tag for the field, but still
see incorrect passwords being submitted. To work around this problem the
user can turn off predictive text, but I would like to design a solution
that does not rely on the user's action. I have noticed that the same
device (and same settings) does not exhibit this behavior on either the
username or password field on mail.google.com. I was not able to find any
clues from the html source on that page.
The sample html is posted below. I'm almost certain that autocorrect and
autocapitalize don't do anything. Can anyone think of what I may have
missed?
<div data-role="fieldcontain" class="ui-hide-label" ><label
for="USER">ID</label><input autocomplete="off" autocorrect="off"
autocapitalize="off" spellcheck="false" type="text" name="USER" id="USER"
value="" maxlength="50" placeholder="${userId_text}" data-theme="c"/></div><div
data-role="fieldcontain" class="ui-hide-label"><label
for="password">Password</label><input autocomplete="off" autocorrect="off"
autocapitalize="off" spellcheck="false" type="password" name="password"
id="password" value="" maxlength="50" placeholder="Password"
data-theme="c"/></div>
If there is a client side solution, I'm more than happy to try that as
well, but since this is a html input and not an Android TextView, I'm not
sure how much control I could have. Please let me know your ideas.
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