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text boxes not showing previous entered values on double click

Hi,
I have created a form having various text boxes? the form is working fine,problem point is even if i submit the 20 times with different values like h,hh,hhh,hhh,hhh1,hh2 for a single field say name. now when i double click the name or type h as value it is not showing the auto complete for the values which were entered before.

Problem is not related with browser setting as far as i can guess bcoz it is same in other browser also like IE,Firefix,chrome. Also if i see other browse other websites there is no such point.

It is only in my html,Can anybody please provide wht can be wrong?
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1. Make sure you set the name attribute as well as the id attribute to the input tag

What is your name? <input name="name" id="name">

instead of

What is your name? <input id="name">

2. make sure you don't have autocomplete="off"
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i am using name and id both regarding auto complete i am using html4
Are you using ajax to submit the form? It only saves the autocomplete when you push the submit button. Here is a workaround

http://www.kirupa.com/forum/showthread.php?346632-Force-auto-complete-on-form-fields

<form action="">
<input type="text" name="firstname" />
<input type="text" name="lastname" />
<input type="text" name="email" />
</form>
<a href="#" onclick="forceAutoComplete();ajax.send()">Send</a>

<script type="text/javascript">
//<![CDATA[
function forceAutoComplete() {
var $forms = document.getElementsByTagName("FORM");
for ( var i = 0; i < $forms.length; i++ ) {
var $form = $forms[i];
var $submit = document.createElement("INPUT");
$submit.type = "submit";
$form.appendChild($submit);
$form.onsubmit = function(){return false}
$submit.style.display = "none";
$submit.click();
}
}
//]]>

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yes i am using ajax to submit the form,Is it because of ajax why i am unable to view the previous values submitted on double clicking text box?
ajax code is

function SubmitFrm() {
       {
            $.ajax({
                  type : 'post',
                  url : 'testsubmit',
                  data : $('#registerform').serialize(),
                  async : false,
                  dataType : "text",
                  beforeSend : function() {
                        $.blockUI({ message: '<h1><img src="../img/loading.gif" /> Processing...</h1>'});
                  },
                  complete : function() {
                        $.unblockUI();
                  },
                  success : function(data) {
                  $.unblockUI();
                        alert(data);
                        
                  },
                  error : function(data) {
                        // check status && error
                  }

            });
      }
Yes. the autocomplete values are only stored when the form is actually submitted.
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is it necessary the button type to be submit to persist the values or button type "button" is also OK ?

 It only saves the autocomplete when you push the submit button.
I think the button type is also ok, as long as its action is set to submit the form.
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i applied the code provided by you but the values are not persisted,there could be any other problem
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