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# password

Please make sure you have read the Tag Syntax document and understand how tag attribute syntax works.

## Description

Render an HTML input tag of type password

## Attributes

#### Dynamic Attributes Allowed: true
#### Name | #### Required | #### Default | #### Evaluated | #### Type | #### Description
--- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ---
accesskey | false |  | false | String | Set the html accesskey attribute on rendered html element
cssClass | false |  | false | String | The css class to use for element
cssErrorClass | false |  | false | String | The css error class to use for element
cssErrorStyle | false |  | false | String | The css error style definitions for element to use
cssStyle | false |  | false | String | The css style definitions for element to use
disabled | false |  | false | String | Set the html disabled attribute on rendered html element
errorPosition | false |  | false | String | Define error position of form element (top|bottom)
id | false |  | false | String | HTML id attribute
javascriptTooltip | false | false | false | Boolean | Use JavaScript to generate tooltips
key | false |  | false | String | Set the key (name, value, label) for this particular component
label | false |  | false | String | Label expression used for rendering an element specific label
labelPosition | false |  | false | String | Define label position of form element (top/left)
labelSeparator | false | : | false | String | String that will be appended to the label
maxLength | false |  | false | Integer | Deprecated. Use maxlength instead.
maxlength | false |  | false | Integer | HTML maxlength attribute
name | false |  | false | String | The name to set for element
onblur | false |  | false | String | Set the html onblur attribute on rendered html element
onchange | false |  | false | String | Set the html onchange attribute on rendered html element
onclick | false |  | false | String | Set the html onclick attribute on rendered html element
ondblclick | false |  | false | String | Set the html ondblclick attribute on rendered html element
onfocus | false |  | false | String | Set the html onfocus attribute on rendered html element
onkeydown | false |  | false | String | Set the html onkeydown attribute on rendered html element
onkeypress | false |  | false | String | Set the html onkeypress attribute on rendered html element
onkeyup | false |  | false | String | Set the html onkeyup attribute on rendered html element
onmousedown | false |  | false | String | Set the html onmousedown attribute on rendered html element
onmousemove | false |  | false | String | Set the html onmousemove attribute on rendered html element
onmouseout | false |  | false | String | Set the html onmouseout attribute on rendered html element
onmouseover | false |  | false | String | Set the html onmouseover attribute on rendered html element
onmouseup | false |  | false | String | Set the html onmouseup attribute on rendered html element
onselect | false |  | false | String | Set the html onselect attribute on rendered html element
performClearTagStateForTagPoolingServers | false | false | false | Boolean | Whether to clear all tag state during doEndTag() processing (if applicable)
readonly | false | false | false | Boolean | Whether the input is readonly
requiredLabel | false | false | false | Boolean | If set to true, the rendered element will indicate that input is required
requiredPosition | false |  | false | String | Define required position of required form element (left|right)
showPassword | false | false | false | Boolean | Whether to show input
size | false |  | false | Integer | HTML size attribute
style | false |  | false | String | The css style definitions for element to use - it's an alias of cssStyle attribute.
tabindex | false |  | false | String | Set the html tabindex attribute on rendered html element
template | false |  | false | String | The template (other than default) to use for rendering the element
templateDir | false |  | false | String | The template directory.
theme | false |  | false | String | The theme (other than default) to use for rendering the element
title | false |  | false | String | Set the html title attribute on rendered html element
tooltip | false |  | false | String | Set the tooltip of this particular component
tooltipConfig | false |  | false | String | Deprecated. Use individual tooltip configuration attributes instead.
tooltipCssClass | false | StrutsTTClassic | false | String | CSS class applied to JavaScrip tooltips
tooltipDelay | false | Classic | false | String | Delay in milliseconds, before showing JavaScript tooltips
tooltipIconPath | false |  | false | String | Icon path used for image that will have the tooltip
type | false | text | false | String | Specifies the html5 type element to display. e.g. text, email, url
value | false |  | false | String | Preset the value of input element.

## Examples

In this example, a `password` tag is displayed. For the label, we are calling ActionSupport’s `getText()` to retrieve password label from a resource bundle.

    <s:password label="%{text('password')}" name="password" size="10" maxlength="15" />