I am the author of a plugin which places example text in form inputs that disappears on user focus (http://plugins.jquery.com/project/ example). I recently received a bug report describing the fact that refreshing a form in Internet Explorer 6 and 7 will reload input values without re-applying any CSS classes (which my plugin relies upon).
This behaviour exists in other browsers such as Firefox and Safari but is avoided by clearing such values on page unload: this method does not work with IE, however. Does anyone know how to prevent IE from caching a form input value? If not, perhaps someone knows *when* IE caches such value as it seems like it may be before unload is called. I've tried setting autocomplete="off" dynamically but to no avail. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
