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Toggle password visibility

Written byPhuoc Nguyen
Created
28 Feb, 2020
Category
Level 1 — Basic
Assume that we have two elements. A password element, and a button for toggling the visibility of the password:
html
<input type="password" id="password" />

<button id="toggle">Toggle</button>
In order to show the password, we turn the password element to an usual textbox whose `type` attribute is `text`:
js
// Query the elements
const passwordEle = document.getElementById('password');
const toggleEle = document.getElementById('toggle');

toggleEle.addEventListener('click', function () {
const type = passwordEle.getAttribute('type');

passwordEle.setAttribute(
'type',
// Switch it to a text field if it's a password field
// currently, and vice versa
type === 'password' ? 'text' : 'password'
);
});

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