title: Chrome 77 caching <select> selected option, even with autocomplete="off"
body: <p>If a <code>&lt;select&gt;</code> element has a <code>selected</code> option, Chrome will ignore that selected option even if <code>autocomplete="off"</code> on the <code>&lt;select&gt;</code> element when using the browser's "navigate back" functionality. One workaround I have found is wrapping the select in a <code>&lt;form&gt;</code>, but I don't want extraneous forms in my html.</p>
  
  <p><strong>Question</strong>: Is there a way to fix this in Chrome without wrapping in a form element? (This behavior does not occur in Firefox, haven't tested other browsers)</p>
  
  <p><strong>To reproduce, using Chrome 77</strong>:</p>
  
  <p>1.) Visit this jsfiddle, and change both selects to "One". Note that "Two" is the selected option for both, so when the page loads this is what should be selected in both elements</p>
  
  <p>2.) Click on the link to google (page navigation won't actually occur, jsfiddle output can't actually navigate to webpages)</p>
  
  <p>3.) With your mouse having clicked in jsfiddle output, click the browser's back button</p>
  
  <p>4.) You'll note that the select element which is wrapped in a form has the correct element selected by default, "Two". The select element which is not wrapped in a form has the incorrect element selected, "One"</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://jsfiddle.net/m5hg8n40/1/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://jsfiddle.net/m5hg8n40/1/</a></p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;!-- chrome ignores 'selected' --&gt;
  &lt;select autocomplete="off"&gt;
    &lt;option value="1"&gt;One&lt;/option&gt;
    &lt;option value="2" selected&gt;Two&lt;/option&gt;
  &lt;/select&gt;
  
  &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;
  &lt;a href="https://google.com"&gt;google.com&lt;/a&gt;
  &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;
  
  &lt;!-- chrome obeys 'selected' --&gt;
  &lt;form autocomplete="off"&gt;
    &lt;select&gt;
      &lt;option value="1"&gt;One&lt;/option&gt;
      &lt;option value="2" selected&gt;Two&lt;/option&gt;
    &lt;/select&gt;
  &lt;/form&gt;
  </code></pre>