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Hi,

I've recently built a form that will be used over and over by certain people and some of the fields will contain the same info every time. I notice that Firefox allows a user to double click on a field and it remembers what has been typed there before - allowing the form to quickly be filled out where the information is the same.

However, IE (sigh) doesn't provide that kind of functionality. Is there any kind of a workaround to get it to do so?

I know I can get users to login , fill out a profile and then use that to auto-populate certain fields but I don't want to make it that complex. Just thought I'd check and see if anyone else has thought about this...

Hi,

The values retained by browser are form fields with the SAME NAMES from other forms filled by the user, no idea how the browser decides how, when or where to load this data, but you may google that.

Regards,
Max

Hi ironlion37 ,

As far as I know IE has had AutoComplete from IE5 at least, but it can be patchy in operation. Here's the IE9 help

Fill in website forms and passwords automatically

You can use AutoComplete to store passwords and other information that you type into web form fields. When you turn on AutoComplete, Internet Explorer will automatically fill in the fields you type into web forms frequently, like your name and address.

When Internet Explorer starts, AutoComplete is automatically turned on. To turn it on or off, do this:

Click to open Internet Explorer.

Click the Tools button, and then click Internet Options.

Click the Content tab.

Under AutoComplete, click Settings.

Select or clear the Address bar, Forms, User names and passwords on forms, and Ask me before saving passwords check boxes.

Click OK , and then click OK again.

Bob