Password textbox - How to fill it?

[Luiz Vianna]

Hi folks,

I have a form.aspx that has an textbox webcontrol named 'password' (and its
texmode=password).

I want to fill it with the password value I have on my database.

The problem is the code

password.text= "mypass"

does not work. It works only when I change it to singleline or multline
textmode.

How do I do that? Fill the password textbox with the value I have keeping
the textmode to password....

Thanks

Luiz

 

[Victor Garcia Aprea [MVP]]

Hi Luiz,

The TextBox class won't write the value attribute if TextMode is set to
Password. This is a good thing as sending the password down the wire in
clear text is really not a good idea. My suggestion is that you explicity
ask the user for the his/her password instead of filling it yourself. That
being said if you *really* want to fill the password for yourself you could
code something like this to force the TextBox to output the input's value,
ie:
[C#]
TextBox1.Attributes.Add("value","YourPassword");

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[rick]

Luiz,

Unfortunatly for textbox's with the textmode = password
that won't work. Here's your way to do it:

password.attributes.add("value", "PasswordValue")

-Rick