Styling Password Fields in CSS

Question

I\'m experiencing a minor issue with fonts in my stylesheet.

This is my CSS:

body
{
  ...
  font: normal 62.5% \"Lucida Sans Unicode\",sans-serif;
}
         


        

Answer 1

The best I can find is to set input[type="password"] {font:small-caption;font-size:16px}

Demo:

input {
  font: small-caption;
  font-size: 16px;
}

<input type="password">

Answer 2

I found I could improve the situation a little with CSS dedicated to Webkit (Safari, Chrome). However, I had to set a fixed width and height on the field because the font change will resize the field.

@media screen and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio:0){ /* START WEBKIT */
  INPUT[type="password"]{
  font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;
  height:28px;
  font-size:19px;
  width:223px;
  padding:5px;
  }
} /* END WEBKIT */

Answer 3

When I needed to create similar dots in input[password] I use a custom font in base64 (with 2 glyphs see above 25CF and 2022)

SCSS styles

@font-face {
  font-family: 'pass';
  font-style: normal;
  font-weight: 400;
  src: url(data:application/font-woff;charset=utf-8;base64,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) format('woff');
}

input.password {
  font-family: 'pass', 'Roboto', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif ;
  font-size: 18px;
  &::-webkit-input-placeholder {
    transform: scale(0.77);
    transform-origin: 0 50%;
  }
  &::-moz-placeholder {
    font-size: 14px;
    opacity: 1;
  }
  &:-ms-input-placeholder {
    font-size: 14px;
    font-family: 'Roboto', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
  }

After that, I got identical display input[password]

Answer 4

The problem is that (as of 2016), for the password field, Firefox and Internet Explorer use the character "Black Circle" (●), which uses the Unicode code point 25CF, but Chrome uses the character "Bullet" (•), which uses the Unicode code point 2022.

As you can see, even in the StackOverflow font the two characters have different sizes.

The font you're using, "Lucida Sans Unicode", has an even greater disparity between the sizes of these two characters, leading to you noticing the difference.

The simple solution is to use a font in which both characters have similar sizes.

The fix could thus be to use a default font of the browser, which should render the characters in the password field just fine:

input[type="password"] {
    font-family: caption;
}