Firefox cache textarea value?

Question

I found a strange issue. Open a simple page in Firefox, the code is simple as below:

<html>
  <body>
    <textarea></textarea>
  </body>
</html>

In Firefox, I type some characters in the textarea. Then I click refresh button of the browser. Surprisingly, after the page refreshed, what I typed is still there in textarea. However, if I just focus on URL bar and press ENTER key, the textarea is clear after refreshing.

I reproduced this in Firefox 3.6.12 in Linux and 3.6.3 in MacOS. And, I have only Firebug extension installed so it should NOT be due to Firefox extension.

Is this a know issue? How to make textarea clear after Refresh button is clicked?

You sound surprised, but this isn't new behavior. Firefox has done this for as long as I can remember (and I've been using Firefox since its version numbers started with "M"!). — Ken, Nov 24 '10 at 05:42

score 26 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:54

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For textarea only:

<textarea autocomplete="off"></textarea>

For all form fields

<form autocomplete="off">

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edited May 23 '17 at 11:54

Community

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answered Dec 06 '10 at 09:39

r92

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score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 03 '10 at 17:36

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It's so that your form information is kept if you accidentally navigate away from the page and then return by using the previous or next button.

answered Dec 03 '10 at 17:36

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score -1 · Answer 3 · edited Aug 18 '12 at 16:05

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Use

<script>document.form.reset();</script>

or

onload="document.FORMNAME.reset();

which will avoid aufill on refresh.

edited Aug 18 '12 at 16:05

Conner

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answered Nov 24 '10 at 04:56

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Firefox cache textarea value?

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