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Textbox webcontrol: supress previous entries

Author
25 Sep 2007 7:20 PM
thewanz
Hello,
I am putting together a form where users will enter their name and phone
number.  Is there a way to disable the property that expands the textbox and
shows previous entries that had the same starting characters or numbers?  I'm
trying to protect the privacy of my users.

Thx.
Wnz

Author
25 Sep 2007 8:43 PM
David R. Longnecker
If I'm understanding you right, the "previous entries" on the TextBox control
isn't a property or function of the control.  The functionality is the local
cache provided by the browser; as far as I know, it can't be controled by
server pages or even local JavaScript.

The only suggestion I've ever ran across and used is to dynamically generate
the text boxes at run time and randomize their ID tags.  It's a huge hassle
and, quite honestly, we removed that functionality during the following iteration
of development--the "security" was determined to be an end user concern.
If the end user was thus concerned about the cache, they'd manage that themselves.

HTH.

-dl

--
David R. Longnecker
http://blog.tiredstudent.com

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> Hello,
> I am putting together a form where users will enter their name and
> phone
> number.  Is there a way to disable the property that expands the
> textbox and
> shows previous entries that had the same starting characters or
> numbers?  I'm
> trying to protect the privacy of my users.
> Thx.
> Wnz
Author
25 Sep 2007 9:02 PM
thewanz
Thanks for your perspective.

Wnz

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"David R. Longnecker" wrote:

> If I'm understanding you right, the "previous entries" on the TextBox control
> isn't a property or function of the control.  The functionality is the local
> cache provided by the browser; as far as I know, it can't be controled by
> server pages or even local JavaScript.
>
> The only suggestion I've ever ran across and used is to dynamically generate
> the text boxes at run time and randomize their ID tags.  It's a huge hassle
> and, quite honestly, we removed that functionality during the following iteration
> of development--the "security" was determined to be an end user concern.
>  If the end user was thus concerned about the cache, they'd manage that themselves.
>
> HTH.
>
> -dl
>
> --
> David R. Longnecker
> http://blog.tiredstudent.com
>
> > Hello,
> > I am putting together a form where users will enter their name and
> > phone
> > number.  Is there a way to disable the property that expands the
> > textbox and
> > shows previous entries that had the same starting characters or
> > numbers?  I'm
> > trying to protect the privacy of my users.
> > Thx.
> > Wnz
>
>
>

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