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I put yesterday's unmask password plugin together with the code to automatically create a checkbox to control it, and removed the dependency on jQuery UI.

Download the code.

Example

<input type="password" id="password"/>

$('#password').showPassword('Show Characters as I Type');

Use

$('[type=password]').showPassword(string) creates a checkbox as above with string as the label. If the checkbox is checked then the password field is unmasked. $('type=password').showPassword(true) unmasks the field directly, and $('type=password').showPassword(false) restores masking.