Html – How to stop Chrome from pre-populating input boxes

Firefox 30 ignores autocomplete="off" for passwords, opting to prompt the user instead whether the password should be stored on the client. Note the following commentary from May 5, 2014:

• The password manager always prompts if it wants to save a password. Passwords are not saved without permission from the user.
• We are the third browser to implement this change, after IE and Chrome.

According to the Mozilla Developer Network documentation, the Boolean form element attribute autocomplete prevents form data from being cached in older browsers.

<input type="text" name="foo" autocomplete="off" />

Set the CSS outline property to none.

input[type="text"], input[type="password"], textarea, select { 
    outline: none;
}

In cases where the browser may add a background color as well this can be fixed by something like

:focus { background-color: #fff; }