TextBox autocomplete attribute gets set to 'off'

[Nikita]

I want browsers to offer autocomplete suggestions for a kendo TextBox I have on a form, but it always renders with autocomplete="off" no matter what I set it to in HtmlAttributes config. How do I make it work?

[Eyup]

Hello Nikita,

 

Thank you for writing to us.

Generally, we have the AutoCompleteBox specifically for similar cases:
https://demos.telerik.com/aspnet-mvc/autocomplete

If you prefer to keep the TextBox instead, you can use the following solution which will fix the override:

@(Html.Kendo().TextBox()
        .Name("textbox")
        .HtmlAttributes(new {
            style = "width: 70%",
            @class = "autocomplete-input"
        })
    )
<script>
    $(document).ready(function () {
        $(".autocomplete-input").attr("autocomplete", "on");
    });
</script>

Feel free to give this a try and let me know if it helps you.

 

Regards,
Eyup
Progress Telerik

[Nikita]

Hello Eyup, thank you for your answer. From what I understand the AutoCompleteBox is designed to offer autocomplete suggestions from a specified data source. I'm looking to use the browsers' feature that provides suggestions from cached user input. I'll try the attribute setting option you provided.

[Eyup]

Yes, this is exactly right.

I hope it will prove helpful to you.