Password Text Box

Last modified: November 4, 2025

The password text box widget is a Dojo widget.

This widget is not supported on native mobile pages.

This widget is not supported in the React client.

Upgrade it to the normal input and action widgets as shown in the Atlas login page template. See the Mendix React Client's Migration Guide for more information.

If you switch to the React client, the widget will not appear in the Toolbox.

The Dojo client is deprecated and will be removed in Mendix 12. It continues receiving security and stability updates until the end of support of Mendix 11.24.

Introduction

The Password text box is a widget that provides a password for authentication:

The Password text box should be placed on a page together with a Login ID text box and a Sign-in button.

Properties

An example of password text box properties is represented in the image below:

Password text box properties consist of the following sections:

Common
Design Properties
General
Label

Common Section

For more information on properties in this section, see the Common Section section in Properties Common in the Page Editor.

Design Properties Section

The Design Properties allow you to change spacing and alignment of the widget and hide it on phone, tablet, or desktop, if needed. Design properties may vary depending on the type of the widget. For example, for the text widget you can change its font weight, color, alignment, and letter case.

General Section

Placeholder

A Placeholder shows a text when an end-user has not entered any text yet. It can be used to give a hint to the end-user on what information should be entered in the field.

Label Section

A label describes the purpose of a widget to the end-user.

For more information on properties of this section, see the Label Section section in Properties Common in the Page Editor.