ABTests.com is the first website I see (and the only one so far), making it possible to display the password your are typing when registering a new account.
I was wondering when it’ll be the first time I’ll see this after reading Jacob Nielsen’s Stop Password Masking:
Usability suffers when users type in passwords and the only feedback they get is a row of bullets. Typically, masking passwords doesn’t even increase security, but it does cost you business due to login failures.
They use two input fields to do this - one of type=”password” and one of type=”text”. They hide/show them according to whether the checkbox it ticked or not:
<label for="id_password1">I want my password to be
<input type="password" name="password1" id="id_password1" />
<input type="text" class="" style="display: none;">
</label>
<input id="show-password" type="checkbox" class="show-password">
<label for="show-password" id="show-password-label">Show password</label>
Do you know of other websites that do this?
