If I have a prompt box that a password needs to be typed into, how would I change any text that the user enters into *s so that the password would be masked?

type="password"

for a prompt box?

for the input box on an html form... not sure about javascript prompts...

JavaScript Prompts

JavaScript Passwords

HTH

are these types of passwords safe? the popup Javascript type.

Nope ... server side is the only way to make them truly safe

I thought so!

yeah... most of my online stuff i protect with a .htpasswd file. This is just for HTML files that I carry around on floppy disks sometimes. I think that my version is safer than most, just not as safe as other methods.

.htaccess alongside .htpasswd