Password

The type="password" input type creates a “password input box”.

This attribute creates a single line text entry field where the characters are hidden with *s.

HTML
<p>
  Password:
  <input type="password" name="password" id="test-password" />
</p>

Please Enter:

Birth Year:

Net ID:

Password:

NOTE: You would never use this type of field to send sensitive data such as SSN’s. For such situations, a site should create a web socket or use an Secure Socket Layer (SSL) connection with a server to guarantee secure delivery of data.