Show password - Show or mask password checkbox Jquery plugin
‘Show password’ is a small and simple Jquery plugin that let your users decide whether they want their password fields masked or not.
“Usability suffers when users type in passwords and the only feedback they get is a row of bullets. Typically, masking passwords doesn’t even increase security, but it does cost you business due to login failures.” - Jacob Nielsen, Stop password masking.
This Jquery plugin, ‘Show password’, let the user decide whether they want their passwords masked or not. Just take a look at the demo beneath and you’ll see what I mean.
How to implement
Very simple! First you download, then you do like this:
Two html elements are needed; a password field and a checkbox. Then you add the javascript below and change #text and #checkbox to the names of your input IDs.
$('#text').showPassword('#checkbox');
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Your code seems like a really hard way to toggle between type=’text’ and type=’password’. Did you try that first, and found it didn’t work?
You can’t change type of an input in IE6 and IE7. So creating a clone is more or less the only way to go.
Hi Jan.
I like the idea of the plugin, however the checkbox should be added with jQuery itself to be unobtrusive to users with javascript disabled.
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@ Kristoffer
You make a good point about unobtrusiveness. However, adding the checkbox in JavaScript means the design has to reside therein. A better solution would be to have the checkbox input have a class that hides it using a method that keeps screen readers from viewing it (you have to be careful about precisely how you go about this). When show-password is called on it, it would remove this class.
This should prove better for a general purpose application, at least.
Good point. Luckily, according to http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=ScreenreaderVisibility most screen readers understand the display: none; part of css, so it should be safe to do it this way.
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I dont like it. It didn’t work..