How to stop browser autocomplete from blocking filter data entry

[jasonwhowell]

Is there a way to make Power BI + Edge disable the autocomplete browser prompts.

The Edge autocomplete has recently started trying to fill in text when I am doing a filter box, but it covers up the filter list, so it gets in my way. It seems like this is kind of a new problem, since I don't remember this before a month ago.

Should Power BI signal to the browser not to do form autocomplete on these filter textboxes?

[jasonwhowell · Accepted solution]

Confirmed that Edge doesn't support granular options on auto-complete to disable it on a specific site like Power BI.

- https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftedge/forum/all/block-auto-fill-in-a-certain-sites/e5de5...

Voting up feedback here: 

https://feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/idea/4fc49c84-a111-ed11-a81b-6045bd864d4f

[Anonymous]

Hi  @jasonwhowell ,

This may be a problem with the browser itself, you can turn off autofill in the browser Settings:

This is the related document, you can view this content:

https://support.iclasspro.com/hc/en-us/articles/218569268-How-Do-I-Disable-or-Clear-AutoFill-AutoCom...

https://support.mindbodyonline.com/s/article/203260523-How-to-disable-the-form-autofill-feature-in-y...

Best Regards,

Liu Yang

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[jasonwhowell]

Thanks for the assistance Liu Yang. 

I agree it's the "helpful" browser doing the autofill attempts. I don't want to turn it off for all websites because I get a lot of benefits from auto complete in other sites with web forms.

The issue seems to be new for Power BI reports. Wondering if the way Edge handles autocomplete has become more aggressive or something like that. 

I think HTML can be used to change which fields get Autocomplete options, but not sure if Power BI uses this kind of HTML under the covers: https://www.w3docs.com/snippets/html/how-to-disable-browser-autocomplete-and-autofill-on-html-form-a...

Thanks for brainstorming. ~Jason