Cheers, but not quite what I'm lookng for. I need something like an attribute to put in the input field to stop it for all visitors.

I figured that it might be a javascript fix, rather than css or php, and that the fact that there is no normal HTML sub-forum.

Responses like this really frustrate me.
Matt I have the same requirement as you and would really appreciate any suggestions from someone who has a definitive answer.

Jamy_za - Think outside your own box - "People generally like" - The web is all about purpose, in my case and I'm sure in Matt's "WEB APP", people generally wouldn't like - hence the original post.

@jamy_za I'm not trying to start a row but the assumption could be that when a request comes from an intelligent sounding person that they do have good reason for wanting it rather than the opposite - thats all.

Not having a go at you at all just forums are full of non answers and it frustrates me!

@mattvot well there is on the ' input ' tag example

 
<form name="input" action="htmls.html" method="post"> 
Username: <input type="text" autocomplete="off" name="user" /> 
<input type="submit" value="Submit" /> 
</form>

you just put ' autocomplete="off" ' on the input filed aka tag...

@nakedweb

i just tried that on the input tag but works to on the form tag...etc

 
<form name="input" action="htmls.html" method="post" autocomplete="off"> 
Username: <input type="text" name="user" />  
Password: <input type="password" name="pwd" />
<input type="submit" value="Submit" /> 
</form> 

Thanks a bunch for this!

Just to put it out there, my situation is that one of the features of my web app my own auto complete box which was interfering with this one.