Pre-populate form:password

[chivas]

Hi,

I have a form which sets the answer to various security questions, I need to be able to pre-populate the answer fields with a mask value, i.e. ******

Unfortunately, when I use form:password, the value is not displayed - however, if I use form:input I can see the mask, but obviously, what I type into the form is not hidden...

Is there anyway to pre-populate form:password fields? Or another way to achieve this?

Cheers :)

[pmularien]

The form: password field will not render a value by default. You need to set the "showPassword" attribute on the tag:

 <form:password ... showPassword="true" />

Ref. docs: Link

Is the password value to be shown? Defaults to false.

[chivas]

Thank you for the quick reply

[pmularien]

I agree that it's not really clear in the tag documentation. It's clearer if you look at the source code for the tag itself.

[shahin]

Hi
when I'm using ShowPassword="true", I'v got this error:

"Attribute showpassword invalid for tag password according to TLD"

and I checked the TLD there is no attribute like showPassword.

any idea where can I get the correct TLD?
Thank you

[Jörg Heinicke]

This seems to have been added only in Spring 2.0.3.

Jörg

[bhemanirao@gmail.com]

This seems to have been added only in Spring 2.0.3.

Jörg

Hi,

I am using this showPassowrd and i am able to get the masked password value in the password field. The problem to me here is when i open the view source of the page i am able to see the original password that what i entered.

Can u please provide the solution to get the masked value in view source of the page as well.