JSF Standard Secret Field Component

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You can drag the Standard JavaServer Faces Secret Field component secret field icon from the Palette to the Visual Designer to create a secret text field, commonly used to enter passwords.

This component is similar to a Text Field component, except that the input entered into a secret field is obscured (all the characters are stars or bullets). The text the user enters (the component's value property) is not obscured or encrypted over the network or on the server in any way; it is just not displayed on the screen in the web browser. Secret Fields render as <input type="password"> in HTML.

After adding a secret field to a Visual Web JSF page, you can do a number of things with it:

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Working With Components
Component Tasks: Quick Reference
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