Comments on: iPhone-like password fields using jQuery

By: madn

madn — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 06:35:09 +0000

not working with other jquery versions

By: Jed

Jed — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 08:32:07 +0000

Thank you very much. Just what I need for experiment.

By: keith

keith — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 00:29:35 +0000

and for good measure – should you have several related layers
click event
$(‘#yourField’).click(function() {
$(‘input:password’).dPassword();
});

By: keith

keith — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 23:57:30 +0000

Thanks for the simple plug-in – works great!

One thing I noticed was that if you cleared a required field and fired validation the masking stopped working (FF6x). So I noticed this corrects that (create another blur event – to reapply)
$(‘#YourField’).blur(function() {
$(‘input:password’).dPassword();
});

By: Stefan Ullrich

Stefan Ullrich — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 15:18:08 +0000

Acutally, we got many comments here, but due to timing issues on our side, there will be no update in the near future. Sorry!

By: Tony

Tony — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 15:11:26 +0000

Nice work.

I’d like to report some issue with the firefox integrated password manager. When there are multiple passwords stored for the same site, the password will be entered from firefox after selecting the corresponding username. The password is entered in the password-field but not in the replacement input field.

Hope for a fix.

By: Greg

Greg — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 22:07:35 +0000

The reader “Dan” had some comments on the idea of changing how a password field should be seen, and he was very adamant on keeping the status quot.

I disagree … the masked password field is a hold out from another era. We as developers need to guide users into using what is best for them. Also, if you’ve done any kind of usability studies you’ll see that most web users are not tech savvy and are frustrated with not knowing if they put in one password or another. The phone style password mask is a great compromise from a full mask to a plain text box, especially with more and more of those non-tech savvy users using phones and getting used to them. It makes entering a password easier and more accurate, which will make that user more likely to come back to your site. That alone is worth the change …

By: Greg

Greg — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 20:25:55 +0000

Works good, except for a small issue.
Seems the text box is locked from any validation. For example … an asp.net required validation control will not fire when the textbox loses focus. Also, a compare validation will not fire when control loses focus. I tried a jQuery blur() function and it won’t fire either.

Any help or ideas ??

By: Brett

Brett — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 20:35:05 +0000

Hey just a heads up–your demo is broken. Javascript error. I would like to use your plugin, but I’m not going to bother downloading it when the demo doesn’t even work.

By: Timmy

Timmy — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 02:29:01 +0000

I really like the idea of your plugin. Nevertheless, the challenge of writing it was much more interesting to me, so I've written my own version... demo: http://timmywillison.com/samples/password123/ github: http://github.com/timmywil/password123 It still supports pasting into the field, is unobtrusive, and has the same options minus the interval change and debug mode, which I didn't really want to put in there, but it would be easy to add. It also supports adding/deleting from the middle and the cursor position stays the same even as the values are masked. This was harder than I thought it would be. Thank you for the inspiration. Timmy