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Please help!

Recently (probably with version 66), Chrome began displaying its autocomplete-suggestion drop-down on the initial mouse click into a search field instead of waiting until a character is typed. How do I make Chrome go back to not displaying suggestions until I begin typing?

I have always made use of Chrome's suggestions drop-down for search fields, but I don't want or need to see a list of random suggestions just because I've clicked into an input field. I only want to see suggestions that match what I start to type (which is how it always worked until recently).

I tried disabling the "Single-click autofill" flag and even the "Show autofill predictions" flag as well, but these flags don't seem to affect the situation. Perhaps the term autofill in these flags doesn't refer to the same thing?

If anyone can help me with this, I'll be your best friend forever and ever!

Thanks for reading this.

TheVictor
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I was having the same issue recently with a datepicker input. To get around it, I wrapped my inputs in a form and set autocomplete="off" in my form tag, as Chrome only recognizes that property for forms and not individual inputs. I added a keyup event so that if the input has text in it, autocomplete is re-enabled:

if (val.length > 0) {
    $('#myForm').attr('autocomplete', 'on');
} else {
    $('#myForm').attr('autocomplete', 'off');
}

You can also add an onBlur event to disable autocomplete suggestions each time you leave an input.

snery
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