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I know of one from a previous project. We had a prompt that said "enter your home address" with JavaScript autocomplete using google location APIs. Unfortunatel
by chillacy 10y ago
I know of one from a previous project. We had a prompt that said "enter your home address" with JavaScript autocomplete using google location APIs. Unfortunately chrome would try to auto fill this box with a city name (not even the full address) and this auto fill prompt sat on top of the JS drop down.
- gkya 10y agoWouldn't making it a textarea w/ rows=1 work? AFAIK textarea is not completed.
- kalleboo 10y agoSo we're back to hacks to replicate a feature that browser developers have decided to ignore? Gotta love web technology. If "just use a textarea" is a valid solution, why did Google even bother not honoring autocomplete?
- gkya 10y agoWell, the web technology is a pile of sh.t and in this case with the textarea you don't put your hands as deep in to is as you'd with the text input. That's how I interact with the web technology.
- kalleboo 10y agoIt's just amusing, that's all. Prediction for the future: 1. Google implements auto-complete for one-line textareas 2. Web developers create textareas with 2 lines but hide the bottom line with CSS and disable the return key 3. Something so diabolical even I can't think of it
- chillacy 10y agoYea that's a good idea. I don't like it because it's hacky, but if that's the only option... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- ori_b 10y agoThat's a bug in autocompletion -- if it had autofilled correctly, with the full address -- there would be no discussion here. If autocompletion had worked as intended, everyone would be happier than if it was disabled.