PasswordCredential

Non-standard
This feature is non-standard and is not on a standards track. Do not use it on production sites facing the Web: it will not work for every user. There may also be large incompatibilities between implementations and the behavior may change in the future.

The PasswordCredential constructor creates a new PasswordCredential object. In supporting browsers an instance of this class may be passed in the credential member of the init object for global fetch.

Syntax

JavaScript
var myCredential = new PasswordCredential(passwordCredentialData)
var myCredential = new PasswordCredential(HTMLFormElement)

Parameters

Either one of the following:

passwordCredentialData 
A PasswordCredentialData dictionary containing the following fields:
  • iconURL: (Optional) the URL of a user avatar image.
  • id: The ID of the user signing in.
  • name: (Optional) The name of the user signing in.
  • password: The password of the user signing in.
htmlFormElement
A reference to an HTMLFormElement with appropriate input fields. The form should at least contain an id and password, but can also include a CSRF token.

Examples

The following example shows how to set up an HTMLFormElement to caputure data which we'll then use to create a PasswordCredential object.

First, the form element.

HTML
<form id="form" method="post">
  <input type="text" name="id" autocomplete="username" />
  <input type="password" name="password" autocomplete="current-password" />
  <input type="hidden" name="csrf_token" value="*****" />
</form>

Next, get a reference to that form element, use it to create a PasswordCredential object and store it in the browser's password system.

JavaScript
var form = document.querySelector('#form');
var creds = new PasswordCredential(form);
// Store the credentials.
navigator.credentials.store(creds)
  .then(function(creds) {
  // Do something with the credentials if you need to.
});

Specifications

Specification Status Comment
Credential Management Level 1 Editor's Draft Initial definition.

Browser compatibility

Feature Chrome Firefox (Gecko) Internet Explorer Opera Safari (WebKit)
Basic support 51.0 ? ? ? ?
Feature Android Android Webview Firefox Mobile (Gecko) Firefox OS IE Mobile Opera Mobile Safari Mobile Chrome for Android
Basic support No support 51.0 ? ? ? ? ? 51.0

License

© 2016 Mozilla Contributors
Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License v2.5 or later.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-us/docs/web/api/passwordcredential/passwordcredential

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