How display text in password field

Question

I have the password field on page. I want to display text \"Enter password\" on screen before entering password but on focus when user enter password it should go back to passwo

Answer 1

You can either give it an image background with the text Enter Password that you change dynamically using javascript (ideally by just removing a CSS class),

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or place a fake input that you replace with javascript for a password input.

I'm not sure how well it would cross browser to change the type of input on the fly.

document.getElementsByTagName("input")[0].type = "text" /* change a hidden field to text*/ works on Firefox, but I wouldn't rely on it working well on IE without testing.