I have a password field in an HTML page that does not display bullets or asterisks when typing the password, but a small box with what appears to be a question mark symbol.
I've tried this in Firefox, and there the normal bullets are shown, just like when entering passwords in other web forms.
Is there a way HTML, CSS, or Javascript can influence what symbols are displayed? We have a fairly complex web framework (Oracle ADF Rich Client), although other applications based on the same framework do not show this behavior.
First, place the <ul>… </ul> tags around the text to turn into a bulleted list. Second, place the <li>… </li> tags around each line item in the list.
A question mark, also known as an interrogation point or interrogation mark, is a punctuation mark that is used to indicate that a sentence is a question.
In a URL, the query starts with a question mark - the question mark is used as a separator, and is not part of the query string. If you also include a question mark in the query string, this would be treated as a literal question mark (i.e. it has no significance beyond that of a regular character).
It's a font issue. IE is trying to render its password-characters using the U+25CF Black Circle character (●, the same one SO uses for its badges), but not finding a glyph for it in the font being used.
This can happen if you've changed the font-family
of the <input>
element to a font that doesn't contain a glyph for this character, or if the user has fiddled their FontSubstitutes
to point MS Shell Dlg
, the font the IE uses to render form fields by default, to point to something other than “Microsoft Sans Serif” which does contain a glyph for ●.
Firefox has its own font-fallback algorithms separate from the IE/Windows ones, which are more likely to fall back to a different font that contains ●.
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