ngx-show-hide-password

ngx-show-hide-password

Add split input button to password or text input. Toggles input type between "text" and "password".

Installation

For an up-to-date angular project version 14 and Bootstrap 5:

npm install ngx-show-hide-password --save
npm install @fortawesome/angular-fontawesome \
    @fortawesome/fontawesome-svg-core \
    @fortawesome/free-solid-svg-icons --save

:exclamation: For previous Angular releases please check the compatibility table of ngx-show-hide-password and @fortawesome/angular-fontawesome!

:white_check_mark: e.g. for angular version 8:

npm install ngx-show-hide-password@~2.1.0 --save
npm install @fortawesome/angular-fontawesome@^0.5 \
    @fortawesome/fontawesome-svg-core \
    @fortawesome/free-solid-svg-icons --save

Integration

// app.module.ts
import { ShowHidePasswordModule } from 'ngx-show-hide-password';
// no need to import @fortawesome/angular-fontawesome for the component
...
@NgModule({
  ...
  imports: [
    BrowserModule,
    ShowHidePasswordModule,
    ...
  ],
  ...
})

as component ...

<show-hide-password size="lg" btnStyle="primary" [btnOutline]="false">
  <input type="password" name="..." >
</show-hide-password>

or with directives ...

<mat-form-field>
  <input id="mysecretpassword" type="password" placeholder="Password" matInput showHideInput>
  <i matSuffix
    class="material-icons"
    showHideTrigger="mysecretpassword"
    [showHideStatus]="{ materialIcon: true, id: 'mysecretpassword' }"
  ></i>
</mat-form-field>

Password hidden	Password exposed

How to customize and some examples how to use the directives & service

• example on stackblitz.
• some more basic examples here.

Documentation

Component: show-hide-password

Demo on stackblitz

attribute	type	description
btnOutline	boolean	default: true
btnStyle	string	'primary', 'secondary', 'success', 'warning', 'danger' or 'info'. default: 'secondary'
size	string	'sm', 'lg'. default: nothing.

Directive: showHideInput

Demo on stackblitz

:information_source: All directives (and the service) are bound to the same unique id. This can be the attribute id of the HTML input element or you can enter a synthetic ID.

attribute	type	description
id	string	unique id.

Directive: showHideTrigger

type	description
string	unique id. * required

Directive: showHideStatus

export interface ShowHideStatusConfig {
  id: string;
  show?: string;
  hide?: string;
  materialIcon?: boolean;
}

attribute	type	description
id	string	unique id. * required
show	string	optional class/material icon identifier. default: 'visibility'
hide	string	optional class/material icon identifier. default: 'visibility_off'
materialIcon	boolean	if true updates innerHTML instead of class attribute. default: false

Service: ShowHideService

• function getObservable

return Observable for input with id

getObservable(id: string): Observable<boolean>

• function setShow

set Status for input with id

setShow(id: string, show: boolean): void

• function toggleShow

toggles Status for input with id

toggleShow(id: string): void

Release History

• 2.6.5
  • update @angular/cli and @angular/core to v15
• 2.6.4
  • update @angular/cli and @angular/core to v14
• 2.6.2
  • enable angular strict mode
  • renamed default branch to main
• 2.6.1
  • (breaking) update ShowHideComponent to Bootstrap 5
• 2.5.0
  • update @fortawesome icons v6
• 2.4.0
  • update @angular/cli and @angular/core to v13, @fortawesome/angular-fontawesome v1
• 2.3.0
  • update @angular/cli and @angular/core to v10, @fortawesome/angular-fontawesome v0.7, @fortawesome/free-solid-svg-icons v5.14
• 2.2.4
  • ShowHideInputDirective no longer needs an Input Attribute ID. ID is now an Input(). Thanks to @aboodz
• 2.2.2
  • update @angular/cli and @angular/core to v9
• 2.1.0
  • dependencies updated
• 2.0.5
  • update @angular/cli and @angular/core to v8
• 2.0.3
  • add directives: showHideInput, showHideTrigger and showHideStatus
• 2.0.0
  • switched to @angular/cli and ng-packagr,
  • requires @angular/core v7 and @fortawesome/angular-fontawesome, uses Font Awesome Eye/EyeSlash Icon
• 1.2.5
  • add new attributes: btnStyle and btnOutline
  • bootstrap 4.0.0
• 1.2.1
  • requires Angular v5, for Angular v4 use @1.1.0 instead
• 1.1.0
  • initial release

compatibility chart

local version	angular version	Bootstrap version
@^2.6.5	v15	v5
@^2.6.4	v14	v5
@^2.6.1	v13	v5
@^2.4.0	v13	v4
@^2.3.1	v11
@^2.3.0	v10
@^2.2.3	v9
@~2.1.0	v8
@~2.0.3	v7
@~1.2.5	v5 and v6
@~1.1.0	v4

:exclamation: The Bootstrap version is only important if you use the show-hide-password Component.

Rename local master branch to main

git branch -m master main
git fetch origin
git branch -u origin/main main

LICENCE

MIT © Oliver Sahner