Working with Auto-Fill Option in Safari

Just like any other web browser, Safari for Windows also supports Auto-Fill options to assist the users in filling out web forms. Safari uses information from different sources to complete the forms. The personal information such as name, e-mail ID, address, contact etc. is picked from the Address Book card. The browser can also retrieve the username and passwords that are saved in the keychain and uses its cache to retrieve any other information.

You can configure the information that Safari can use to fill the web forms. Just go to the Edit in the menu bar and select preferences. A new window will pop out. Select the Auto Fill tab and there you will find three options that can be used to retrieve the information via address book card, keychain and cache while filling up the form. All of the options have an Edit button besides them which can be used to configure the information that the Safari uses for Auto-fill. The feature can be especially useful if you are online with something like the Apple iPod touch, and don’t feel like constantly retyping all your information with the cumbersome touch screen.

Using the Auto-fill is very simple. Just go to any web form and select the auto-fill form option under the Edit menu. Safari will fill all the information it matches with the saved information for the fields in the form. If no information is found then it will intimate about this in a new window. All the items that are filled by the auto-fill appear in yellow in the form. If Safari does not recognise the fields it leaves it blank and you have to fill it up manually.