Setting the value of a password textbox at runtime

[John]

Hi all, I thought that this would be very basic. Basically, I have a textbox
set at type password. When I try to set the value of this textbox at runtime
the text field does not get populated.

I thought I could just go
=========
txtPassword.Text = "MyPassword"
=========

If I do this, nothing appears in the textbox at all.

Any help appreciated, thanks in advance
Mark

[Jos]

"John" <[e-mail]> wrote in message news:c5**********@lust.ihug.co.nz...

Hi all, I thought that this would be very basic. Basically, I have a textbox set at type password. When I try to set the value of this textbox at runtime the text field does not get populated.

I thought I could just go
=========
txtPassword.Text = "MyPassword"
=========

If I do this, nothing appears in the textbox at all.

Any help appreciated, thanks in advance
Mark

This is normal behavior.

If a password would be set before the page is sent to the user,
anyone looking at the HTML source of the page would be able to
read the password.

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Jos

[Steve C. Orr [MVP, MCSD]]

Sending the password in plain text to the browser is a bad idea from a
security standpoint so the default security settings discourage it.
(Anybody can do a view source for the page
and see the password)

However there is a workaround if you're determined. You can set the
password text via client side script.
Here's the simplest example I've seen:

MyPWTextBox.Attributes.Add("value", strPassword)

This server side code outputs the needed client side code

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I hope this helps,
Steve C. Orr, MCSD, MVP
http://Steve.Orr.net
Hire top-notch developers at http://www.able-consulting.com
"John" <[e-mail]> wrote in message news:c5**********@lust.ihug.co.nz...

Hi all, I thought that this would be very basic. Basically, I have a textbox set at type password. When I try to set the value of this textbox at runtime the text field does not get populated.

I thought I could just go
=========
txtPassword.Text = "MyPassword"
=========

If I do this, nothing appears in the textbox at all.

Any help appreciated, thanks in advance
Mark