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Site rules

Turn shortcuts, suggestions, or emoji off for a whole website, a single page, or one field.

Site rules let you turn SimpleFill’s automatic features on or off for a whole website, a single page, or even one field. Keep everything on in general, and switch off just what gets in the way.

What you can control

FeatureWhat it does
Shortcut expansionExpands saved shortcuts as you type
Auto-suggestionsShows matching saved values while you type
Emoji expansionFinds and inserts emoji when you type a colon

Add a rule

  1. Go to Settings > General > Site rules and click Manage.
  2. Under Website or page URL, type where the rule applies:
    • example.com for every page of the site
    • example.com/ for the homepage only
    • example.com/account for that page only
  3. Under Apply to, choose:
    • All fields on these pages, then tick the Enabled features
    • Fields matching a CSS selector or Fields matching an XPath, to target particular fields
  4. Click Add rule.

For a field rule, each feature can be Enabled, Disabled, or Use website settings, which follows the site’s rule, or your general settings if there isn’t one.

Examples

RuleWhy
app.slack.com: Emoji expansion offSlack has its own emoji picker
linkedin.com/feed: Auto-suggestions offKeeps the feed’s search and comments clear
github.com, field input[name="q"]: Shortcut expansion offLets you search for text that starts with ;

How rules are matched

  • http, https, and www. don’t matter: example.com covers all of them.
  • Subdomains need their own rules: forms.example.com isn’t covered by example.com.
  • A page rule also covers the same page with anything after ? or #. Include a ? part to match it exactly.
  • Field rules win over page and site rules, and more specific pages win over less specific ones.
  • Each website or page can have one rule.

What rules don’t switch off

Rules control the automatic features. The things you start yourself keep working everywhere: Quick Access, the right-click menu, AI actions run from the menu, and saved forms.

For website owners

If you run a website and want SimpleFill’s automatic features off on part of it, add an attribute to the element:

AttributeTurns off
data-simplefill-disable="true"All automatic features
data-simplefill-disable-shortcuts="true"Shortcut expansion
data-simplefill-disable-autosuggestions="true"Auto-suggestions
data-simplefill-disable-emoji="true"Emoji expansion

It applies to the element and everything inside it, including iframes and shadow roots.

<div data-simplefill-disable="true">
  <!-- SimpleFill stays out of the way in here -->
</div>