How to set Echo Char for JPasswordField in Java?

With echo char, you can set a character that would appear whenever a user will type the password in the JPasswordField.

Let us first create a new JPassword field −

JPasswordField passwd = new JPasswordField();

Now, use the setEchoChar() to set the echo char for password field. Here, we have asterisk (*) as the field for password −

passwd.setEchoChar('*');

The following is an example to set echo char for password field −

Example

package my;
import java.awt.GridLayout;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JLabel;
import javax.swing.JPasswordField;
import javax.swing.JTextField;
import javax.swing.SwingConstants;
public class SwingDemo {
   public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
      JFrame frame = new JFrame("Register!");
      JLabel label1, label2, label3;
      frame.setLayout(new GridLayout(2, 2));
      label1 = new JLabel("Id", SwingConstants.CENTER);
      label2 = new JLabel("Age", SwingConstants.CENTER);
      label3 = new JLabel("Password", SwingConstants.CENTER);
      JTextField emailId = new JTextField(20);
      JTextField age = new JTextField(20);
      JPasswordField passwd = new JPasswordField();
      passwd.setEchoChar('*');
      frame.add(label1);
      frame.add(label2);
      frame.add(label3);
      frame.add(emailId);
      frame.add(age);
      frame.add(passwd);
      frame.setSize(550,250);
      frame.setVisible(true);
   }
}

Output