Hide Eye Icon From Password Input In MS Edge And IE 10 Using CSS

In this article, we will learn how to hide eye icon from password input in MS Edge and IE 10 using CSS.

While filling up a form, there comes a situation where user type a password and want to see what he/she have typed till now. In modern websites to see that, they provides a clickable eye icon on which the password can visible or invisible.

Where some browser such as Microsoft Edge and Internet Explore 10 provides inbuilt winking eye feature to show or hide entered password. So in that circumstance a user can have double winking eye icons such as given above.

To solve this issue we just have to add CSS as given below.

::-ms-reveal {
    display: none !important;
}

Above CSS will help to disable the browser’s default implementation of the winking eye.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/font-awesome/4.7.0/css/font-awesome.min.css">
    <style>
        /* To hide IE10/MS Edge's implementation of the winking eye. */
        ::-ms-reveal {
            display: none !important;
        }
    </style>
</head>
<body>
    <input type="password" id="txtPassword" />
    <i class="fa fa-eye"></i>
</body>
</html>

Output:

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3 Comments

  1. soumya venugurthi

    thank you, its useful

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  2. John Doe

    Thanks! I’ve been trying to figure out what the hell that icon was for a while.

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    1. You’re welcome 🙂

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