How to create a password-field in a form with HTML/XHTML

The code below shows you how to create a password-field in a form with HTML/XHTML.

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">

<head>
<title>Web Development Tutorials.com</title>
</head>
<body>

<form action="script.php" method="post">
user name:
<input type="text" name="username" />
<br />
password:
<input type="password" name="password" />
</form>

</body>
</html>

Note: The <input> tag is a self-enclosing tag, therefore it must have a forward slash (/) and a preceding blank space to end the tag, for it to be XHTML compliant.

Note: when text data is entered into a password-field, the web browser displays asterisks or bullets instead of the characters that are entered.

The code above creates the form with a text-field and a password-field below.

user name:
password:

Use the text editor below to practice what you have learned.

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