[jackl79]

I need to change input type="text" to input type="password" via JavaScript

<form id="login" action="#" method="post">
<input id="username-field" type="text" name="username" title="Username" onmousedown="javascript:this.value=''; javascript:this.focus();" value="Username" tabindex="1" />
<input id="password-field" type="text" name="password" title="Password" onmousedown="javascript:this.value=''; javascript:this.type='password'; javascript:this.focus();" value="Password" tabindex="2" />
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="sign in" tabindex="3" />
</form>

This works in Firefox and Safari but not IE So then I tried this code

<script type="text/javascript">
function passit(ip){
var np=ip.cloneNode(true);
np.type='password';
if(np.value!=ip.value)
np.value=ip.value;
ip.parentNode.replaceChild(np,ip);
}
</script>

<form id="login" action="#" method="post">
<input id="username-field" type="text" name="username" title="Username" onmousedown="javascript:this.value=''; javascript:this.focus();" value="Username" tabindex="1" />
<input id="password-field" type="text" name="password" title="Password" onmousedown="javascript:this.value=''; passit(this.form[0]); javascript:this.focus();" value="Password" tabindex="2" />
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="sign in" tabindex="3" />
</form>

This does what I need but turns the username type to password field not the password box

Please can somone help!