Re: Completion of form fields by Windows

From: Kathleen Anderson [MVP - FrontPage] (spiderwebwoman_at_mvps.org)
Date: 09/16/04 

Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 20:51:35 -0400

In IE, it's called AutoComplete:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/using/howto/customizing/autocomplete.mspx 

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~ Kathleen Anderson
Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
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Bob Richardson <bobr at whidbey dot com> wrote:
> There are many neat features in Front Page, but one I was pleasantly
> surprised to find was the simplification of form completion. For
> example, when a user types just one letter into the FirstName field,
> a drop down list appears with all the possible first names, starting
> with that letter. Type a second letter and the drop down list
> narrows. You've all seen this feature on other web sites.
>
> I have two questions.
>  1. What are the official names of the fields that utilize this
> feature. For example, LastName works, but I doubt that Surname works.
> If we know these field names, we can more fully utilize this feature.
>
>  2. Where is this info stored. In the registry? In particular it
> would be nice to erase some of these values. Once I typed my userID
> and password into the same field. I THOUGHT I had hit the tab key, in
> between these two fields, but apparently not. Now, whenever I type in
> my userID, my password is also visible in the drop down list.

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