Passwords showing up as white (or not at all) in IE

Question

For some reason password fields are appearing as blank (or white) characters in IE8 for a site I\'m working on.

Both these screenshots have a long password entered

Answer 1

This is how I solved it

'', 'class' => 'input-block-level', 'tabindex' => '2', 'placeholder'=>'Password', 'title' => 'Password', 'style' => 'font-family:arial, serif;')) ?>