Pre-populating a password field

[MattB]

I have a page where a person can edit their account information and one
of the things to edit is a password. I'd like to be able to pre-populate
this field with something to indicate they have one already, but when I
put something like this in the page load:

password.text = "xxxxxx"

The box still loads with nothing in it. I'd really like to have those
password mask dots in there instead of nothing to indicate there is an
existing password. Can this be done? Any suggestions?

Thanks!

Matt

 

[Marina]

Yes, this is a security feature, since otherwise the password would be in
plain HTML, which isn't so secure.

You can write javascript to populate the field. This would require you
emitting your own javascript to set the 'value' of the HTML element. This
would of course also result in the password being in plain text in the HTML.

 

[MattB]

True, unless I just use a dummy value to indicate there's something
there (which was my plan).

Thanks. I was afraid it would be a javascript thing. For now I think
I'll just leave it as-is because I don't feel like kludging it like that.

Thanks for the response!

Matt