Change a fields' display type at runtime

[Segi]

I have a field called PASSWORD that has Password as the display type so that the contents are masked with an asterisk.

I want to trigger an event when the user clicks on a button next to this field that will change the display type back to text to make it readable

I tried doing something like this but setDisplayType is not a valid function
field.

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fields.PASSWORD.fieldControl.field.setDisplayType("TEXT");

Can this be done ?

[Steve]

Hi Segi,

What you are trying to do is not supported.

The best way to get round this is to have 2 fields on the page. One field as a password field and one normal field. Put this in to a panel and show/hide the appropriate field when the button is clicked.

Of course the downside to this is that you need to maintain the value in two fields.

Steve