Re: password Boxes

"Richard Lynch" <ceo@l-i-e.com> wrote in message news:1419.66.99.91.45.1110820032.squirrel@www.l-i-e.com... > > Does anyone know how to change the style of password boxes so when the > > characters are entered an asterisk appears rather that a smal circle? > > > > Or is this just determed by the OS and uncangable with CSS or Javascript > > of > > PHP? > > They are certainly NOT changeable with PHP. > > I doubt that JavaScript holds the answer either. I don't know much about JavaScript or VBScript, but I believe there is an action called "OnKeyPress" or something to that effect. If that's there, writing a function that accepts the key pressed and replace it with another character, while the original pressed character is stored in a shadow array? Like I said.. have no clue, if this is possible, but that is what I would try.... > > You might, however, find an HTML ATTRIBUTE supported by some browsers that > allows you to change the character used. I doubt it, but it's possible. > > If it is possible, presumably CSS allows you to change the attribute as > well, though you never know for sure with CSS... > > For sure, whatever you do find, it ain't something that's standard across > all browsers. But you may only care about the one browser that uses the > small circles anyway. > > Why in the world do you WANT to change it? [puzzled] > > -- > Like Music? > http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm