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passwordField()

Builds and returns a string containing a password field form control based on the supplied objectName and property. Note: Pass any additional arguments like class, rel, and id, and the generated tag will also include those values as HTML attributes.

Name	Type	Required	Default	Description
objectName	any	Yes		The variable name of the object to build the form control for.
property	string	Yes		The name of the property to use in the form control.
association	string	No		The name of the association that the property is located on. Used for building nested forms that work with nested properties. If you are building a form with deep nesting, simply pass in a list to the nested object, and CFWheels will figure it out.
position	string	No		The position used when referencing a hasMany relationship in the association argument. Used for building nested forms that work with nested properties. If you are building a form with deep nestings, simply pass in a list of positions, and CFWheels will figure it out.
label	string	No	useDefaultLabel	The label text to use in the form control.
labelPlacement	string	No	around	Whether to place the label before, after, or wrapped around the form control. Label text placement can be controlled using aroundLeft or aroundRight.
prepend	string	No		String to prepend to the form control. Useful to wrap the form control with HTML tags.
append	string	No		String to append to the form control. Useful to wrap the form control with HTML tags.
prependToLabel	string	No		String to prepend to the form control's label. Useful to wrap the form control with HTML tags.
appendToLabel	string	No		String to append to the form control's label. Useful to wrap the form control with HTML tags.
errorElement	string	No	span	HTML tag to wrap the form control with when the object contains errors.
errorClass	string	No	field-with-errors	The class name of the HTML tag that wraps the form control when there are errors.
encode	any	No	true	When set to `true`, encodes tag content, attribute values, and URLs so that Cross Site Scripting (XSS) attacks can be prevented. Set to `attributes` to only encode attribute values and not tag content.

// Provide a `label` and the required `objectName` and `property`
<cfoutput>
    #passwordField(label="Password", objectName="user", property="password")#
</cfoutput>

// Display fields for passwords provided by the `passwords` association and nested properties
<fieldset>
	<legend>Passwords</legend>
	<cfloop from="1" to="#ArrayLen(user.passwords)#" index="i">
		#passwordField(label="Password ##i#", objectName="user", association="passwords", position=i, property="password")#
	</cfloop>
</fieldset>