View Hidden Passwords Behind Asterisks In Chrome And Firefox

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Forget your password? Don’t jump straight to the reset hassle. View passwords hidden behind asterisks in Chrome and Firefox with these tips.

Almost all browsers hide the password field with asterisks for security purposes. Having your browser save them saves you the hassle of remembering them all. But if your password wasn’t saved for some reason, and you have a complex passcode, it’s nice to be able to see what’s behind the curtain. Following this guide, you’ll learn how to view passwords hidden behind asterisks in Chrome and Firefox.

Note: This trick will work in most modern browsers, including Safari and Microsoft Edge, with slightly different naming conventions. In Safari, for example, you’ll find the option as Inspect Element.

How to View Passwords Hidden Behind Asterisks in Google Chrome

Let’s assume that the website you’re using doesn’t have a show password button or option. If it does, click it—it’ll do this for you. If it doesn’t, however, follow these steps.

Open any website where you have your password saved, right-click on the password field, and select Inspect.
When the HTML Editor opens, look for input type=”password” field and change “password” to “text” before pressing Enter to save.
- An easy way to find that line of code is to hit Ctrl+F and type password in the search field, then use the arrow icons to search through the results.
Once you’ve changed input type=”password” to input type=”text”, your password should appear as plain text on the website you’re using.

How to Show Hidden Passwords in Firefox

The process is virtually the same for Firefox users.

Right-click the password field and press Inspect.
The Inspect panel will appear beneath the page. The structure will be slightly different, but look for type=”password” in the select HTML snippet. Change “password” to “text” before pressing Enter to reveal your password.
You can change the type value back to password after, or you can simply refresh the page. When you fresh, the page should reset back to its default, hiding the password from view again.

Saving Yourself Some Hassle

Forgetting a password can be frustrating, but this trick can definitely help ease the pain. If the password is saved in your browser, you can use the Inspect console to quickly view that password hidden behind asterisks, whether you’re using Google Chrome or Firefox. The same trick works similarly in most modern browsers.

20 Comments

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January 3, 2013 at 8:43 am
This may be handy to know. However Firefox will tell you the passwords under the options menu. It would be worth noting that in IE 9 this is also possible using the developer tools that are now built into IE.
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- nakaly
  May 3, 2021 at 10:58 am
  yes me too
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Kristi Richardson
January 3, 2013 at 8:52 am
Doesn’t this make you more vulnerble to hacks? Can’t anyone then find out your password? I am not tech savvy, so maybe I am missing something here.
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- Heather Mock
  July 18, 2016 at 5:07 pm
  someone who has access to your computer, yes.
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rahul
December 26, 2014 at 2:40 am
How to display astrisk in password character in HTML
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sae
May 31, 2016 at 3:17 am
thanks broo
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gentleman
July 23, 2016 at 1:03 am
really great sir… I attempted and my password was revealed in crome browser. thanks a lot for your guidance.
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norman
September 2, 2016 at 7:35 pm
tnx sir big help for me
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Linda francis
October 2, 2016 at 9:47 am
Need new password but cant send to emails as can’t acseses email to get new password sent to emsi
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Puneet Anderson
January 25, 2017 at 12:30 am
Thank you very much Sir.This is really helpful.
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Joel
March 31, 2017 at 12:58 am
very helpful…. thanks… i cant really recall the dot dot dot password
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AJAY
April 21, 2017 at 3:55 am
what if their right click is disabled? then how to see password
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- Private
  May 3, 2017 at 5:49 pm
  Find the keyboard shortcut. I don’t know it, but the web does.
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- boboo
  September 26, 2017 at 2:26 am
  F12
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dan
June 25, 2017 at 6:35 pm
Is there a similar trick for Edge? Dan
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Keerthan
August 20, 2017 at 9:50 pm
If the device is Tab then how can we do these above operations?? is this possible in touchscreen devices?? If yes give the solution to me please.
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- Tony Coleby
  August 21, 2017 at 7:18 am
  From what I know there is no element view in any Android or tablet-based browser.
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Raju
April 16, 2018 at 1:30 am
Thanks a lot Brother
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Babak
April 10, 2019 at 2:28 am
Thank you! It worked for me.
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Mansoor khan
January 14, 2020 at 4:18 am
very helpfull
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