Internet Explorer 6 -- Auto Fill

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Does Internet Explorer have an option similar to Firefox's "Remember what I
enter in Forms and the search bar?" Using Firefox, after I enter information
on a web site the first time, the next time it will auto fill after I enter
the first few letters. However, I cannot get the same feature to work in
Internet Explorer. Here are the options I have chosen in IE:

Tools/Internet Options/Content/Auto Complete -- I selected all the available
options
Tools/Internet Options/Advanced -- I selected Use inline Auto Complete

Any help would be greatly appreciated. My users are hammering at the gates!
 
Hi Diana,

You need to code your site to use the autofill features. Your user settings
are correct, but you need to place forms in your documents for IE to
recognise. (the actual setting label is 'Autofill FORMS') Each autofill
entry in the registry is stored by document Address/Formname/tag name, so
you need to specify these attributes for each of your forms that you want
your user to be able to auto-fill.
eg.
<form name="frmLogon" action="DoLogon.aspx" method="Post" target="_self">
<input type="hidden" name="txtSessionID" value="secretcode">
<input type="text" name="txtUserName" value="" onfocus="this.select();">
<input type="password" name="txtPWD" value="" onfocus="this.select();">
<input type="submit" name="cmdGo" value="Login">
<input type="button" name="cmdCancel" value="Cancel">
</form>

You can control the autofill features of individual tags by specifying the
autofill attribute as false. So in the above example, to stop the passord
field from being completed by autofill you would add autofill="false" to the
tag for the password.

A common mistake made by web designers is to use an iframe to display the
logon form on each page of a web site. (see http://www.jobs.nsw.gov.au) and
since the logon form is hosted by different 'parent' documents, a user has
to enter their logon credentials on every page before autofill will
recognise each logon form on the site.
You get around this by having only the one entry point (document/form) for
loging in (see my site http://www.iecustomizer.com Member Login link)

Another nice feature is that if you use consistant names for your tags, then
autocomplete will present a list of entries for all fields(tags) that use
that name, so if on one form you use "txtUserName" and another form, the
same tag name "txtUserName", autofill will present the same list of choices
for each field/tag.

Regards.
 
Hi,
First try unchecking all Autocomplete options. Close and re-open IE. Clear
forms, clear passwords, clear history.

Restart the computer and re-enable Autocomplete options.

Next see:
Protected Storage - Save Password issues:
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/ProtectedStorage.htm

Re: > My users are hammering at the gates!
Are you trying to configure a number of machines through Group Policy?

Hope this helps,
Don
[MS MVP- IE]

Diana said:
Does Internet Explorer have an option similar to Firefox's "Remember what I
enter in Forms and the search bar?" Using Firefox, after I enter information
on a web site the first time, the next time it will auto fill after I enter
the first few letters. However, I cannot get the same feature to work in
Internet Explorer. Here are the options I have chosen in IE:

Tools/Internet Options/Content/Auto Complete -- I selected all the available
options
Tools/Internet Options/Advanced -- I selected Use inline Auto Complete

Any help would be greatly appreciated. My users are hammering at the
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gates!
 
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