How does Chrome detect Credit Card fields?

This question is pretty old but I have an updated answer for 2019!

You can now tell your browser which fields are for credit card info just by naming the <input> correctly.

The following answer is from my original answer from here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/41965106/1696153

Here’s a link to the official current WHATWG HTML Standard for enabling autocomplete.

Google wrote a pretty nice guide for developing web applications that are friendly for mobile devices. They have a section on how to name the inputs on forms to easily use auto-fill. Eventhough it’s written for mobile, this applies for both desktop and mobile!

How to Enable AutoComplete on your HTML forms

Here are some key points on how to enable autocomplete:

  • Use a <label> for all your <input> fields
  • Add a autocomplete attribute to your <input> tags and fill it in using this guide.
  • Name your name and autocomplete attributes correctly for all <input> tags
  • Example:

    <label for="frmNameA">Name</label>
    <input type="text" name="name" id="frmNameA"
    placeholder="Full name" required autocomplete="name">
    
    <label for="frmEmailA">Email</label>
    <input type="email" name="email" id="frmEmailA"
    placeholder="[email protected]" required autocomplete="email">
    
    <!-- note that "emailC" will not be autocompleted -->
    <label for="frmEmailC">Confirm Email</label>
    <input type="email" name="emailC" id="frmEmailC"
    placeholder="[email protected]" required autocomplete="email">
    
    <label for="frmPhoneNumA">Phone</label>
    <input type="tel" name="phone" id="frmPhoneNumA"
    placeholder="+1-555-555-1212" required autocomplete="tel">
    

How to name your <input> tags

In order to trigger autocomplete, make sure you correctly name the name and autocomplete attributes in your <input> tags. This will automatically allow for autocomplete on forms. Make sure also to have a <label>! This information can also be found here.

Here’s how to name your inputs:

  • Name
    • Use any of these for name: name fname mname lname
    • Use any of these for autocomplete:
      • name (for full name)
      • given-name (for first name)
      • additional-name (for middle name)
      • family-name (for last name)
    • Example: <input type="text" name="fname" autocomplete="given-name">
  • Email
    • Use any of these for name: email
    • Use any of these for autocomplete: email
    • Example: <input type="text" name="email" autocomplete="email">
  • Address
    • Use any of these for name: address city region province state zip zip2 postal country
    • Use any of these for autocomplete:
      • For one address input:
        • street-address
      • For two address inputs:
        • address-line1
        • address-line2
      • address-level1 (state or province)
      • address-level2 (city)
      • postal-code (zip code)
      • country
  • Phone
    • Use any of these for name: phone mobile country-code area-code exchange suffix ext
    • Use any of these for autocomplete: tel
  • Credit Card
    • Use any of these for name: ccname cardnumber cvc ccmonth ccyear exp-date card-type
    • Use any of these for autocomplete:
      • cc-name
      • cc-number
      • cc-csc
      • cc-exp-month
      • cc-exp-year
      • cc-exp
      • cc-type
  • Usernames
    • Use any of these for name: username
    • Use any of these for autocomplete: username
  • Passwords
    • Use any of these for name: password
    • Use any of these for autocomplete:
      • current-password (for sign-in forms)
      • new-password (for sign-up and password-change forms)

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