Title: Replace form input by asterisks
Last modified: June 18, 2017

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# Replace form input by asterisks

 *  Resolved [steamyunicorn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/steamyunicorn/)
 * (@steamyunicorn)
 * [8 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/replace-form-input-by-asterisks/)
 * Is there a way to replace input in a textfield with dots or asterisks?
    Like 
   what you have in f.e. password fields?

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 *  Plugin Author [Chad Butler](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cbutlerjr/)
 * (@cbutlerjr)
 * [8 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/replace-form-input-by-asterisks/#post-9239680)
 * If you want obfuscated field input, then use the a password field type.
 *  Thread Starter [steamyunicorn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/steamyunicorn/)
 * (@steamyunicorn)
 * [8 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/replace-form-input-by-asterisks/#post-9240015)
 * But is the field input than hashed or something like that or does it just hide
   the input but stores it in the db as the normal value.
 *  Plugin Author [Chad Butler](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cbutlerjr/)
 * (@cbutlerjr)
 * [8 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/replace-form-input-by-asterisks/#post-9241442)
 * No – in this case “password” refers to the field input type, which is an HTML
   property, which has nothing to do with how the data is handled (which is something
   entirely separate from the input type).

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 * Last reply from: [Chad Butler](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cbutlerjr/)
 * Last activity: [8 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/replace-form-input-by-asterisks/#post-9241442)
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