Password placeholder in IE8

[KeKs0r]

Hi I just implemented this on my landing page and it works like a charm. Except for one small thing:

My password placeholder is shown with only **********, because that is the default password input field behaviour.

Has anybody found a fix for that?

[jamesallardice]

This gets brought up time and time again. Due to the way this script works, and the fact that IE<8 does not allow you to modify the type property of an input element, there is unfortunately no way to fix this without a significant change of technique.

See duplicates for more info: #34, #30, #13, #6