password *******

[Anon]

hello everyone!!

Thanks so much for taking the time to read my problem.

I am getting a user name and password from people and I need the information typed into the password field to look like ***** rather than whatever they typed in as a password. Does anyone know how to do this??

[Anon]

When you are setting up the text box to hold the password make it type='password'.

Ex.
<input type="password" name="the_password">

RJ

[Anon]

thank you!!

[Anon]

leena

probably worth a mention though that the name/value pair for a 'password' form element is passed as a query string appended to the url, and so as-is it offers no security worth talking about.

[miyake]

I would suggest using POST METHOD...

<FORM METHOD="post" ACTION="login.php">

So it won't show in the URL.

[Anon]

Miyake has it right. Values/name pairs only show in URLS when using the GET method.