How to Reveal Hidden Passwords (Asterisks) In Web Browsers

In many situations that we require to know what lies behind those asterisks. In many cases for different website login's we need to enter the passwords which will be hidden form us. Here is the simple trick to reveal the passwords on our web browsers.

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These hidden passwords are disguised with the help of simple HTML and CSS. So just by changing the value of something specific will easily reveal what’s behind those bullets or asterisks.

Here we see how to revel the passwords in Google Chrome and Internet explorer.

Google Chrome browser

In any website which contains your saved password, right click on the password box and click on Inspect element as showed in the below picture.

Hidden Password

Now we can notice the bottom quarter of our screen filled with codes. Now we need to focus on the highlighted part to reveal the password behind the asterisks.

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Now look for type="password" and double click on it. Replace the word “password” with “text”.

It should now look like type="text". And hit Enter.

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That’s it now you can see the text behind the asterisks.

Reveal hidden Password

Microsoft Internet Explorer

In any website which contains your saved password, Go to Tools in the Menu bar and select F12 developer tools from the list as showed in the figure.