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March 9, 2025
Question

Request: 1Password support for autofill on input fields with type="search"

  • March 9, 2025
  • 2 replies
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Issue Summary

I've noticed that 1Password doesn't recognize or autofill input fields with type="search". This is a standard HTML5 input type documented in MDN Web Docs as a text input field optimized for search queries.

Environment

  • Device: Mac
  • Browser: Microsoft Edge
  • Mac, 1Password, and MS Edge versions: Latest as of March 9, 2025

 

Detailed Description

In my company's business system login form, the enterprise code and employee code inputs use type="search", and 1Password is unable to autofill these fields. The specific HTML looks like this:

<input class="input_w100 validate[required]" id="m_login_employee_company" type="search" name="WEAEnterpriseID" value="" placeholder="企業コード" maxlength="10"> 
<input class="input_w100 validate[required]" id="m_login_employee_mynumber" type="search" name="WEAPersonalID" value="" placeholder="従業員コード" maxlength="10">

These fields contain important user identification information for password management, and the inability to autofill them creates unnecessary friction.

Requested Feature

I would like 1Password to recognize type="search" input fields in the same way it handles type="text" fields, allowing autofill of custom field values into these inputs.

Current Workarounds

Currently, I'm working around this limitation by:

  • Right-clicking the field and manually selecting the value to fill
  • Copying values from 1Password and pasting them manually

Since many enterprise systems use search fields for login information, this feature would benefit many users who face similar issues with their corporate applications.

2 replies

Tom
March 9, 2025

Just for trying, if you create either a 'text' or 'password' field and label it not as text/pasword but as 'm_login_employee_company' does it autofill? Either that or whatever is in readable label in front of the specific search field should work if I recall correctly

dalfajkAuthor
March 9, 2025

No, it doesn't work. I tried probably all those kinds of labels.

1P_Dave
1Password Employee
April 15, 2025

Hello @dalfajk! 👋

I'm sorry for the delay in replying. 1Password won't fill into fields marked as type="search" if our team hasn't created a specific recipe for a website using that type of field for a login form. So that the team and I can look into this further, could you please send the page structure of the webpage in question to our support team? Follow these steps:

  1. Open the website in question until you can see the field that you're referring to.
  2. Right-click on the page and click "1Password - Password Manager" > Help > Collect Page Structure.


Attach the resulting JSON file to an email message addressed to support@1password.com

With your email please include:

  • A link to this thread: https://www.1password.community/discussions/1password/request-1password-support-for-autofill-on-input-fields-with-typesearch/152852 
  • Your forum username: dalfajk
  • A link to the affected webpage.
  • Please do not post the file here on the forum. 


You should receive an automated reply from our BitBot assistant with a Support ID number. Please post that number here. Thanks very much!

-Dave