I fixed that behavior in Firefox by comparing defaultValue to value the other day... maybe that works in IE as well?
--Klaus On Apr 4, 12:38 pm, mudge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
