jQuery pwdMeter 1.0.1

pwdMeter is a small password strength meter plugin for jQuery that provides a neat and easy way to show the user's password strength. At the same time it helps a user to generate and choose a secured password for their account. The footprint is less than 3 KB in size.

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#Installation#

##Step 1:## Include a reference to the jQuery Core library (1.3 or above) and the pwdMeter plugin. ###

<script language="javascript" src="jquery.js"></script>
<script language="javascript" src="jquery.pwdMeter.js"></script>

Step 2:

In your HTML file, provide the markup required by pwdMeter.

<table width="300" border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0">
  <tbody><tr>
    <td><input id="password" type="text"></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td><div id="pwdMeter" class="neutral">Very Weak</div></td>
  </tr>
</tbody></table>

Step 3:

Finally you need to fire a call to the pwdMeter plugin and supply your parameters (if any):

<script language="javascript">
    $(document).ready(function(){
 
        $('#password').pwdMeter();
 
    });
</script>

pwdMeter accepts the following optional parameters:

• minLength: The minimum length of the password.

• displayGeneratePassword: If set to true, displays a link to generate random passwords.

• generatePassText: You can specify any text that you'd like the "Generate Password" link read.

• generatePassClass: This specifies the class for the "Generate Password" link.

• randomPassLength: Specifying the length of the random password. Can be any integer for example 8, 10, 15 etc.

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