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Greetings @cleemputc,

Somebody else raised this a while back and I did file an issue but it got lost amongst some significant rewriting we were doing.

When 1Password is asked to fill the form what we do is we try to simulate as best we can user behaviour. We place focus on the field to mimic clicking it. We then set the value of the field and fire off a number of keyboard events to try and ensure we trigger any required response from the page. For this page we click on the email field, set the value, click on the password field and set its value.

I don't know why but the email field is being cleared when focus shifts from the email to the password field. The only reason the password field isn't also cleared is its the final field and so focus is left on it. Counterintuitively, if we place focus on one field and fill the opposite one then the field doesn't get cleared. You can simulate this by using the browser console and a combination of document.getElementsByName("email")[0].value = "somebody@example.com" and document.getElementsByName("password")[0].value = "peekaboo" along with real mouse clicks for changing focus.

With your better understanding of the underlying code is there anything that might explain why this happens? We could add an exception to 1Password, but these can be a bit fragile given they rely on the structure of the page not changing. It is an option for unusual sites though where more fundamental changes to the code would either not help or would negatively impact more sites than the change would help with. I'll be interested to hear what you think and I'd love to learn what seems to be causing the field to clear just for my own edification.