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passwordFieldTag()

Builds and returns a string containing a password field form control based on the supplied name. 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
name string Yes Name to populate in tag's name attribute.
value string No Value to populate in tag's value attribute.
label string No 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.
encode any No true Use this argument to decide whether the output of the function should be encoded in order to prevent Cross Site Scripting (XSS) attacks. Set it to true to encode all relevant output for the specific HTML element in question (e.g. tag content, attribute values, and URLs). For HTML elements that have both tag content and attribute values you can set this argument to attributes to only encode attribute values and not tag content. 
1. Basic Password Field
<cfoutput>
    #passwordFieldTag(label="Password", name="password", value="")#
</cfoutput>

2. Label Placement Before Input
<cfoutput>
    #passwordFieldTag(label="Password", name="password", labelPlacement="before")#
</cfoutput>

3. Wrapping Input with Custom HTML
<cfoutput>
    #passwordFieldTag(
        label="Enter Password",
        name="password",
        prepend="<div class='input-group'>",
        append="</div>"
    )#
</cfoutput>

4. Custom Label Decoration
<cfoutput>
    #passwordFieldTag(
        label="Password",
        name="password",
        prependToLabel="<strong>",
        appendToLabel="</strong>"
    )#
</cfoutput>
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