jQuery password strength checker

Question

I\'m quite new to jQuery, and I\'ve written a simple function to check the strength of a password for each keypress.

The idea is that every time a user enters a char

Answer 1

Strength of a password should be checked on behalf of several parameters like the presence of special characters and numbers, length of the password etc.

I have found the below tutorial with nice demo:

http://tinytute.com/2014/06/03/animated-password-strength-checker-quick-easy/

The jQuery code block:

$(document).ready(function(){

    $("#textBox").keyup(function(){

        var passWord = $("#textBox").val();
        var passLength = passWord.length;
        var specialFlag = 0;
        var numberFlag = 0;
        var numberGenerator = 0;
        var total = 0;

        if(/^[a-zA-Z0-9- ]*$/.test(passWord) == false) {

            specialFlag =20;
        }


        if(passWord.match(/[0-9]/)) {

            numberFlag = 25;
        }

        if(passLength>4&&passLength<=6){
            numberGenerator =25;
        }else if(passLength>=7&&passLength<=9){
            numberGenerator =35;
        }else if(passLength>9){
            numberGenerator =55;
        }else if(passLength>0&&passLength<=4){
            numberGenerator =15;
        }else{
            numberGenerator =0;
        }

        total = numberGenerator + specialFlag + numberFlag;
        if(total<30){
            $('#progressBar').css('background-color','#CCC');
        }else if(total<60&&total>=30){

            $('#progressBar').css('background-color','#FF6600');

        }else if(total>=60&&total<90){

            $('#progressBar').css('background-color','#FFCC00');

        }else if(total>=90){

            $('#progressBar').css('background-color','#0f0');

        }
        $('#progressBar').css('width',total+'%');

    });

});

Hope these set of logic will solve the problem