[WICKET-1943] Wicket is changing the HTML within an input tag, autocomplete attribute from off to false

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Duplicate
• Affects Version/s: 1.3.5
• Fix Version/s: 1.3.6
• Component/s: wicket
• Environment: Using Wicket 1.3.5, JDK 6, on Glassfish V2, and Firefox 3.0.3
• Assignee: Igor Vaynberg
• Reporter: Pranav Kacholia
• Created: 19/Nov/08 20:29
• Updated: 05/May/09 14:53
• Resolved: 19/Nov/08 21:06

Description

To prevent Firefox from using its Autocomplete feature on input fields, it is recommend that you use autocomplete='off' as an attribute within the input tag.
However, wicket reads this and changes it to autocomplete = 'false'

Hence a tag which initially reads
<input wicket:id="footag" autocomplete="off" />
, gets rendered by wicket as
<input id="fooTag3" name="fooTag" value="" autocomplete="false" wicket:id="footag"/>

This then does not work with firefox or internet explorer. Autocomplete is not an html standard, however wicket should not be changing the html attributes.

Issue Links

• duplicates: WICKET-1504 AutoCompleteTextField - javascript error "type mismatch" in line 227 in IE