password input
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/> <title>Listing 8-3. A password field</title> </head> <body> <form method="post" action=""> <p>Enter your password <em>(maximum 12 characters)</em> <input type="password" id="password" maxlength="12" /></p> </form> </body> </html>