clearing text boxes

teammatt3's picture

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This is kinda hard to explain but here I go...
when you double click on a text box, for example a search engine one, a list of all your searches displays below the text box, is there a way to get rid of them. I am asking because when I am filling in a form I always select the wrong email because I typed it in wrong, one time, so now it always shows up, and it is driving me crazy!

Busy's picture

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what browser you using?

openmind's picture

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If you are using IE just double click in the field, use the down arrow to move over the entry you want to remove and just hit delete.

Poof!!! It's gone! Wink

teammatt3's picture

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I did not know it was that easy, thanks

Suzanne's picture

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I *think* you're talking about the auto-fill feature for forms -- you can edit that I believe in IE (you can with other browsers that allow it), but selecting and deleting only kills the one instance, it will continue to recur.

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Maybe it's Auto Complete? Just go to Tools > Internet Options > Content > AutoComplete and uncheck all of the boxes.

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