change type of input field with jQuery

Question

$(document).ready(function() {
    // #login-box password field
    $(\'#password\').attr(\'type\', \'text\');
    $(\'#passwo         


        

Answer 1

Nowadays, you can just use

$("#password").prop("type", "text");

But of course, you should really just do this

in all but IE. There are placeholder shims out there to mimic that functionality in IE as well.