Adding autocomplete="off" is not gonna cut it. After a little research, we found Chrome actually ignores autofill="off” by design. Search context-based autocomplete models do not need a high-resolution query log dataset to record the user’s sequential keystrokes for specific query completions; however, such data is mandatory in interaction-based However, IE does have a Use the classic autocompleteoff on the autocomplete input. For autocomplete behavior with site-specific suggestions, use the list attribute with the