What you want is to disable HTML autocomplete Attribute.
Setting autocomplete="off" here has two effects:
It stops the browser from saving field data for later autocompletion
on similar forms though heuristics that vary by browser. It stops the
browser from caching form data in session history. When form data is
cached in session history, the information filled in by the user will
be visible after the user has submitted the form and clicked on the
Back button to go back to the original form page.
On Chrome, the only method we could identify which prevented all form fills was to use autocomplete="new-password". Apply this on any input which shouldn't have autocomplete, and it'll be enforced (even if the field has nothing to do with passwords, e.g. SomeStateId filling with state form values). See this link on the Chromium bugs discussion for more detail.
Note that this only consistently works on Chromium-based browsers and Safari - Firefox doesn't have special handlers for this new-password (see this discussion for some detail).
Update:Firefox is coming aboard! Nightly v68.0a1 and Beta v67.0b5 (3/27/2019) feature support for the new-password autocomplete attribute, stable releases should be coming on 5/14/2019 per the roadmap.
Update in 2022: For input fields with a type of password, some browsers are now offering to generate secure passwords if you've specified autocomplete="new-password". There's currently no workaround if you want to suppress that behavior, but I'll update if one becomes available.
I know it's been a while but if someone is looking for the answer this might help. I have used autocomplete="new-password" for the password field. and it solved my problem. Here is the MDN documentation.
It will base on the "name" attribute to decide whether to autofill your form. In this example, name: "remark". So Chrome will autofill based on all my previous "remark" inputs.
So, to hack this, I give name a random value using uuid() library.
import uuid from 'react-uuid';
Now, the autocomplete dropdown list will not happen.
I use the id attribute to identify the form input instead of name in the handleChange event handler
If a browser keeps on making suggestions even after setting
autocomplete to off, then you have to change the name attribute of the
input element.
The attribute does prevent the future saving of data but it does not necessarily clear existing saved data. Thus, if suggestions are still being made even after setting the attribute to "off", either:
rename the input
clear existing data entries
Additionally, if you are working in a React context the attribute naturally becomes autoComplete.