Browser issue Forum search displays drop down suggestions that don't make sense

[Digital Doctor]

Latest chrome.
I get this list of suggestions when I search.
As you seen the suggestions don't make sense.
They also get in the way of me clicking [ ] search titles only.

This is a problem in chrome only. I only seem to get it on this one computer.
Any idea ?

There are workarounds: [Tab] makes the suggestions go away.

 

[Tigratrus]

I have that same problem. Not the strange suggestions, but the fact that it's *constantly* getting in the way of my selecting [] search titles only.
Sometimes I remember to select [] search titles only before putting in my search string, but most of the time I start putting in the search string and, upon reflection, decide that I'll get a much better result if I just look for titles. Not a deal breaker, but it's annoying.

 

[Paul B]

I believe this is browser functionality related to stored field information.

Click on Tools -> Under the Bonnet -> Clear browsing Data -> Clear saved Auto-fill form data

 

[Mike]

I have seen this before, but our HTML actually seems to try to prevent it (results="0", which is WebKit specific). Of course, I'm not seeing it right now, though that HTML has been in there for many months...

I'm not sure if there's much else we can do. (Maybe we can kill auto-complete entirely, though I don't think that's worthwhile.)

 

[Digital Doctor]

Note: Using [del] aka Delete to delete the entries appears to get rid of it !

 

[Digital Doctor]

I was able to delete all my old entries.
I when thru the entire alphabet by:

typing a:
seeing which entries showed up
delete them all
..
typing b:
... etc

and now they are all gone.
I *think* the latest chrome also gave me less problems ...
as when I typed x ... the only suggestion given was xenforo.
whereas in the picture above ... typing x ... gave non-sensical suggestions.

 

[Paul B]

Didn't this work?

Click on Tools -> Under the Bonnet -> Clear browsing Data -> Clear saved Auto-fill form data

 

[Digital Doctor]

I didn't try that ... it wasn't too disruptive.
Wanted to keep the old entries to figure out what the problem was.

 

[Mike]

Is this still happening? I've not noticed it - I get standard auto-complete suggestions now.

 

[Digital Doctor]

I have not had any problems.
I'll check all my PCs at work.

 

[Mike]

Maybe this was a bug in a previous version of Chrome then...

 

[Digital Doctor]

I think it was a Chrome problem.

 

[Paul B]

I use Chrome and I too haven't seen it recently.

 

[Digital Doctor]

I found no more evidence of this problem.
[Browser Bug][Closed]

 

[Digital Doctor]

I noticed I was still getting unhelpful suggestions in Chrome on one PC.
This time it was for Create Thread.


Using Brogan's suggestion eliminated the problem.

 

[Vincent]

I noticed I was still getting unhelpful suggestions in Chrome on one PC.
This time it was for Create Thread.
View attachment 15341

Using Brogan's suggestion eliminated the problem.

View attachment 15340

This can happen to any <input type="text"></input> tag

 

[James Freeman]

This can happen to any <input type="text"></input> tag

That isn't (x)HTML valid, Not all HTML tags have the closing one's only ones with data within. (Such as DIV, P, STRONG, etc).

For instance, there really would be any need to open that tag because you put all the data within a value tag.

<input type="text" value="test" />

 

[Vincent]

That isn't (x)HTML valid, Not all HTML tags have the closing one's only ones with data within. (Such as DIV, P, STRONG, etc).

For instance, there really would be any need to open that tag because you put all the data within a value tag.

<input type="text" value="test" />

Hah, lolz, you're right
Not that I don't know, but yeah, mistake

 

[Digital Doctor]

I got this back again.
But for the Create thread box.

It keeps pulling old titles from vBulletin forums