Many of us, want to clear specific fields on going back page via browser back button.
Someone asked:
How do I clear the contact form data when the user clicks back on the browser to prevent spammers submitting the form multiple times by clicking back, submit over and over again?
Actually Modern browsers implement something known as back-forward cache (BFCache). When you hit back/forward button the actual page is not reloaded (and the scripts are never re-run).
So, to achieve it, you need to add code into submit click function, so, before submission just convert that field type into password. see below jquery code.
$("#submit").click(function () {
$('.phone').prop("type", "password");
});
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