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Or the site lets your password manager fill the fields, but for some reason their javascript doesn't recognize it and refuses to let you submit because it hasn'
by pavon 5y ago
Or the site lets your password manager fill the fields, but for some reason their javascript doesn't recognize it and refuses to let you submit because it hasn't verified your password as matching, meeting strength rules, etc. At least in that case deleting and typing just the last character usually fixes it.
- spookthesunset 5y agoProbably some developer who isn’t fully up to speed with what event hooks to use in order to trigger their JavaScript validation rules. And yes it is super annoying. …though not as annoying as sites that don’t let you copy / paste into their login fields.
- ryandrake 5y agoFunny, since the problem of “typing stuff into a text field and submitting it to a web site” was solved over 20 years ago, and without JavaScript. Yet web developers today still manage to try and fail to solve it using code. I guess when your only tool is a hammer…