Disable form or block cache for anonymous users? I have two forms in Drupal 8 that I am prepopulating values with if a value exists in the query string.

$keywords = Xss::filter($this-&gt;requestStack-&gt;getCurrentRequest()-&gt;get('keywords'));

$form['keywords'] = [
      '#type' =&gt; 'textfield',
      '#maxlength' =&gt; 128,
      '#size' =&gt; 64,
      '#default_value' =&gt; Unicode::strlen($keywords) ? $keywords : '',
      '#prefix' =&gt; '&lt;div class="search-box__input js-search-input"&gt;',
      '#suffix' =&gt; '&lt;/div&gt;',
      '#required' =&gt; TRUE,
      '#attributes' =&gt; [
        'placeholder' =&gt; Unicode::strlen($keywords) ? $keywords : t('Search Site'),
      ]
    ];


Works great for authenticated users, but for anonymous users, they are always seeing the last term entered, despite the query string having nothing in the URL. Even if I close the browser and come back, the term is still in the input field. I assume it gets cached.

The form is being attached as a twig variable to a block containing other content:

/**
 * Implements hook_preprocess_block().
 * @param $variables
 */
function mytheme_preprocess_block(&amp;$variables) {
  if (isset($variables['elements']['content']['#block_content'])) {
    $variables['block_content'] = $variables['elements']['content']['#block_content'];
  }

  // inject main nav search form to block template for main_nav only
  if ($variables['elements']['#id'] == 'main_nav') {
    $variables['main_nav_search_form'] = \Drupal::formBuilder()-&gt;getForm('\Drupal\mymodule_search_forms\Form\MainNavSearchForm');
  }
}


Is there a way to change this so that does not happen? Any cache tag I could use?
What you need need to do, is not to use a cache tag but a cache context. In your specific scenario you want to use url.query_args:keywords. In code that would look like this

$form['keywords'] = [
   '#cache' =&gt; ['contexts' =&gt; ['url.query_args:keywords']],
   ...
];


For reference.

Cache tags are used to invalidate cache. Like if a cache element is tagged with node:1 and node with nid 1 is updated, then all cache containing node:1 cache tag is invalidated (other tags are also invalidated).

Cache contexts are used if cached element exists in multiple variations based on something like the query arg. What happens is that multiple cache entries are created and they will all be invalidated based on the same logic (cache tags).