You can drag the Standard JavaServer Faces Secret Field component 
from
the Palette to the Visual Designer to create a secret text field, commonly used to enter passwords.
- This component is a JavaServer Faces reference implementation that cannot use themes. The Password Field component in the Basic category of the Palette does support themes and provides other features that improve ease of use.
This component is similar to a Text Field component, except that the input entered into a secret field is obscured (all the characters are stars or bullets). The text the user enters (the component's value property) is not obscured or encrypted over the network or on the server in any way; it is just not displayed on the screen in the web browser. Secret Fields render as <input type="password"> in HTML.
After adding a secret field to a page, you can do a number of things with it:
- Select the component and drag it to another location on
the page.
- Select the component and edit its properties. Some typical
properties to edit are:
- id. The name of the component. In the JSP file,
this name is the value of the component's id
attribute. In the page bean, this property's value is
the name of the HtmlInputHidden object.
- value. The user's password, the value that will
be sent to the server.
- id. The name of the component. In the JSP file,
this name is the value of the component's id
attribute. In the page bean, this property's value is
the name of the HtmlInputHidden object.
- Right-click the component and choose one of the following
pop-up menu items:
- Edit Event Handler. Write code for one of the
following event handlers.
- validate. Opens the Java Editor with the
cursor positioned in the component's validate
method so you can insert code to validate the value
of the component.
- processValueChange. Opens the Java Editor
with the cursor positioned in the component's processValueChange
method so you can insert code that executes when the
value of this component changes (for example, the user
changes the value of another component that is controlling
the value of this component).
- validate. Opens the Java Editor with the
cursor positioned in the component's validate
method so you can insert code to validate the value
of the component.
- Bind to Data. Opens a dialog box that enables you to bind the component's
valueproperty to a data provider or an object so your application can evaluate it when the page is submitted. For more information, see Bind to Data Dialog Box.
- Auto-submit on Change. Causes the form to be automatically submitted if the value of the component changes. Sets the component's JavaScript onclick property to
common_timeoutSubmitForm(this.form, 'component-id');. At runtime, this code causes the form to be automatically submitted if the user changes the component value. Once the form is submitted, conversion and validation occur on the server and any value change listener methods execute, and then the page is redisplayed.
A component configured to Auto-submit on Change can use virtual forms to limit the input fields that are processed when the form is submitted. If the auto-submit component is defined to submit a virtual form, only the participants in that virtual form will be processed when the auto-submit occurs.
- Configure Virtual Forms. Enables you to add the component to a virtual form.
- Property Bindings. Opens a dialog box that enables
you to bind the properties of the component to other objects
or properties that update this component's properties
automatically.
- Edit Event Handler. Write code for one of the
following event handlers.
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