IE not offering to save passwords on my login page

I'm developing a basic login page in ASP.NET. The page includes an email field, a password field and a submit button. For some reason Internet Explorer doesn't offer to remember the login info, while other browsers such a开发者_如何学运维s Firefox & Chrome do. For other pages (Gmail, Twitter etc.) IE als offers to remember password. Please note that I am not using a username that I previously asked IE not to remember the password for.

Basically, how does IE recognize a login page, and why won't it recognize mine as such?

Thanks

I had similar problem while developing simple login form which submits itself by tag <a> instead of <input type="submit">. But the form was not developed under ASP.NET (which i do not know what is).

The problem was solved thank to the following article: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ieinternals/archive/2009/09/11/troubleshooting-stored-login-problems-in-ie.aspx

The article discusses main prolems with occurence of "remember password" dialog in IE. My case was number 5 in that article. I inserted AutoCompleteSaveForm() method before submit() one and IE started to display the dialog. Breafly speaking, the incorrect form code was:

<form action='javascript:void(0)' method='post' id="form_id" >
<input type="text" id="login_text" /><br/>
<input type="password" id="password" /><br/>
<a href="#" onclick="submit()"> Login </a>
<form/>

The correct one was:

<form action='javascript:void(0)' method='post' id="form_id" >
<input type="text" id="login_text" /><br/>
<input type="password" id="password" /><br/>
<a href="#" onclick="window.external.AutoCompleteSaveForm(document.getElementById('form_id')); document.getElementById('form_id').submit();"> Login </a>
<form/>

Hope this helps.

Best Regards, Ilya.

I know this post is quite old but I was running into this same problem. My issue was that I had converted the Login control to a template and because of styling concerns I changed the default asp:Button to an asp:LinkButton.

Internet Explorer apparently looks for an <input> tag in order to save passwords. The link button renders an <a> tag so IE wasn't recognizing my Login control as a valid login form.

Hope this helps!