Question

I’ve got a normal password field from which I would like to “get” the masked value – yep, that ugly ********** obfuscated value.

HTML:

<input type="password" name="password" value="" id="password"></input>

JS/JQ DOM:

$("#password").val(); // Password in cleartext

Answer 1

If you mean that you want a string that contains as much * as the number of characters you inserted in a password field you could do:

var password = $("#password").val();
password  = password.replace(/./g, '*');