Reveal the password in a password field on a web page

If you're ever in the situation where you have forgotten the password for some web site, but it is right there in the password field of the login form -- only in the form of asterisks or bullets -- and you would like to copy it from the password field, if only it were not asterisks...well, you can.


You can convert the password field to a plain text field, which will reveal the password behind the asterisks. To do so, you will need to use your browser's web inspector. The following is the procedure for Safari; the steps are similar in Google Chrome.

• Right-click the password field and select 'Inspect Element' in the context menu. This will open the web inspector and highlight the HTML tag for the password field.
• The highlighted line should contain something like this:
  
  <input type="password" name="something">
  
  (Don't worry if it doesn't look exactly like that. As long as the HTML tag contains the type="password" part ...

Source: http://feeds.macosxhints.com/click.phdo?i=ceeff1e2a888519e549c75f25fd83bce

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