Add autocomplete="off" to all inputs that have a value

[alexvorn2]

On refresh in the browser - old data is filled in the inputs, instead of the actual data from the value attribute of the input.

to be more clear : ​http://www.screenr.com/p2K7

​http://www.screenr.com/p2K7

Doesn't this happen to all inputs everywhere across the web? What makes widgets.php so different?

The problem is that it's confusing sometimes when not the right text is displayed in the form input.
The input that have a value attribute I think should have an autocomplete=off atribute.

Replying to helen:

Doesn't this happen to all inputs everywhere across the web? What makes widgets.php so different?

Not everywhere, I tested on facebook, changing my name with a short one, and on a refresh the text has been filled with the original one. (But there is not a autocomplete="off" attr to the input).

I'm more interested in why you are singling out widgets.php when it can (and often does) happen anywhere you have a form input, including selects and others.

Replying to helen:

I'm more interested in why you are singling out widgets.php when it can (and often does) happen anywhere you have a form input, including selects and others.

Oh, then we can use everywhere not only in the widgets.php page... settings pages is a good idea too.

Seems to me that we should generally retain default browser behavior because that's what informs user expectations, like keeping form data if you soft refresh or accidentally navigate back and forth. Now I'm curious as to why you find this to be a problem with WordPress as opposed to the web at large, because it really does happen everywhere. I deal with it regularly in development :)

Note, this is a browser specific issue (Firefox), other browsers use different auto-complete implementations. I guess you can turn it off in your browser.