title: Getting the masked value of a password field?
body: <p>I've got a normal password field from which I would like to "get" the masked value - yep, that ugly <code>**********</code> obfuscated value.</p>
  
  <p>HTML:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;input type="password" name="password" value="" id="password"&gt;&lt;/input&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>JS/JQ DOM:</p>
  
  <pre><code>$("#password").val(); // Password in cleartext
  </code></pre>