Microsoft FrontPage: Preventing Auto Complete From Storing Sensitive Data In Frontpage Forms

Storing Sensitive Data

Last week\'s tip explained how to configure your FrontPage forms to improve on the performance of Internet Explorer\'s AutoComplete feature. As we said in that tip, AutoComplete tracks the data users enter in form fields; when they encounter similarly named fields, it prompts them with the data they\'ve entered before.

AutoComplete data is safe and secure and the only way to access it is through a form as described above. But, your users still may not want sensitive data like credit-card numbers stored. To prevent AutoComplete from storing the contents of a particular field, add the AUTOCOMPLETE attribute to the field\'s

tag, as shown here:

AUTOCOMPLETE="off">

You can also disable AutoComplete for an entire form by adding the AUTOCOMPLETE attribute to the

AUTOCOMPLETE="off">

There\'s never a reason to use the AUTOCOMPLETE attribute with a value of "on". The AutoComplete feature is always on unless the user disables it in the browser. And in that case, there\'s no way for you to turn it back on.