Obscure secret data upon entry

Anvil Q&A
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I have a form where I need the user to enter some secret data, much like a password. I would like this data to be obscured when entered, the same as we see when we enter passwords.

Is this possible?

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You can change the type of the textbox manually to password with setAttribute on the dom node of the textbox:

I’m not sure why password is not already an option for the type of the textbox since it is valid on input elements. That’s worth a feature request.

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Why not just check the hide_text on the textbox?

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The benefit to making it type password is that you can see that some text is being entered and how many characters because it shows you the little password dots.

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Yes but hide_text does the same job, doesn’t it? Which you are doing using js.

Your clone edited with hide_text

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Huh, neat. I honestly have never seen that property before, but that does indeed do the job. I figured it would entirely obscure the user from seeing that typing was going on – like when you type passwords into the Linux terminal – but that’s not the case, haha.

I do question, though, why they made this a whole nother attribute rather than just adding type password to the text box – it does the same HTML work but IMHO another type would be clearer.

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Thank you all for such a lively discussion! Go figure, hiding in plane site: Hide Text.

Happy Holidays.

Dave

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