How to do this through the tag itself change type from text to password
<input type='text' name='pass' />
Is it possible to insert JS inside the input tag itself to change type='text' to type='password'?
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This is not supported by some browsers (IE if I recall), but it works in the rest:
document.getElementById("password-field").attributes["type"] = "password";
or
document.getElementById("password-field").attributes["type"] = "text";
$(".show-pass").click(function (e) {_x000D_
e.preventDefault();_x000D_
var type = $("#signupform-password").attr('type');_x000D_
switch (type) {_x000D_
case 'password':_x000D_
{_x000D_
$("#signupform-password").attr('type', 'text');_x000D_
return;_x000D_
}_x000D_
case 'text':_x000D_
{_x000D_
$("#signupform-password").attr('type', 'password');_x000D_
return;_x000D_
}_x000D_
}_x000D_
});<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>_x000D_
<input type="text" name="password" class="show-pass">Yes, you can even change it by triggering an event
<input type='text' name='pass' onclick="(this.type='password')" />
<input type="text" placeholder="date" onfocusin="(this.type='date')" onfocusout="(this.type='text')">
Changing the type of an <input type=password> throws a security error in some browsers (old IE and Firefox versions).
You’ll need to create a new input element, set its type to the one you want, and clone all other properties from the existing one.
I do this in my jQuery placeholder plugin: https://github.com/mathiasbynens/jquery-placeholder/blob/master/jquery.placeholder.js#L80-84
To work in Internet Explorer:
The function below accomplishes the above tasks for you:
<script>
function changeInputType(oldObject, oType) {
var newObject = document.createElement('input');
newObject.type = oType;
if(oldObject.size) newObject.size = oldObject.size;
if(oldObject.value) newObject.value = oldObject.value;
if(oldObject.name) newObject.name = oldObject.name;
if(oldObject.id) newObject.id = oldObject.id;
if(oldObject.className) newObject.className = oldObject.className;
oldObject.parentNode.replaceChild(newObject,oldObject);
return newObject;
}
</script>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.or/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<script type="text/javascript" language="javascript">
function changefield(){
document.getElementById("passwordbox").innerHTML = "<input id=\"passwordfield\" type=\"password\" name=\"password-field\" title=\"Password\" tabindex=\"2\" />";
document.getElementById("password-field".focus();
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<div id="passwordbox">
<input id="password-field" type="text" name="password-field" title="Password"onfocus="changefield();" value="Password" tabindex="2" />
</div>
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="sign in" tabindex="3" />
</body>
</html>
Try:
<input id="hybrid" type="text" name="password" />
<script type="text/javascript">
document.getElementById('hybrid').type = 'password';
</script>
I had to add a '.value' to the end of Evert's code to get it working.
Also I combined it with a browser check so that input type="number" field is changed to type="text" in Chrome since 'formnovalidate' doesn't seem to work right now.
if (navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase().indexOf('chrome') > -1)
document.getElementById("input_id").attributes["type"].value = "text";
Here is what I have for mine.
Essentially you are utilizing the onfocus and onblur commands in the tag to trigger the appropriate javascript. It could be as simple as:
<span><input name="login_text_password" type="text" value="Password" onfocus="this.select(); this.setAttribute('type','password');" onblur="this.select(); this.setAttribute('type','text');" /></span>
An evolved version of this basic functionality checks for and empty string and returns the password input back to the original "Password" in the event of a null textbox:
<script type="text/javascript">
function password_set_attribute() {
if (document.getElementsByName("login_text_password")[0].value.replace(/\s+/g, ' ') == "" || document.getElementsByName[0].value == null) {
document.getElementsByName("login_text_password")[0].setAttribute('type','text')
document.getElementsByName("login_text_password")[0].value = 'Password';
}
else {
document.getElementsByName("login_text_password")[0].setAttribute('type','password')
}
}
</script>
Where HTML looks like:
<span><input name="login_text_password" class="roundCorners" type="text" value="Password" onfocus="this.select(); this.setAttribute('type','password');" onblur="password_set_attribute();" /></span>
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