Password strength meter

1

i’m trying to add a password strength to my code using javascript,it works separately when i use a just a textbox, but when i add it to my code it doesn’t work this is my code

<!DOCTYPE html>
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<html>
    <head>
        <link rel="stylesheet" href="font-awesome-4.7.0/css/font-awesome.min.css"/>
        <link rel="stylesheet" href="bootstrap-3.3.7/css/bootstrap.min.css"/>
        <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="infosecure.css"/>
        <title>user sign up</title>
        <meta charset="windows-1252">
        <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
        <script type="text/javascript" >
            var attempt=3;
            function chkpass()
            {
                var init=document.getElementById("first");
                var sec=document.getElementById("second");
                if(init.value="")
                {
                    alert("You did not enter a password \n" + "please enter one now");
                    init.focus();
                    return false;
                }
                if(init.value != sec.value)
                {
                    alert("The passwords you entered are not the same \n");
                    init.focus();
                    init.select();
                    return false;
                }
                else 
                   return true;
           }
    
    </script>  
    </head>
    <body>
        <h1>INFOSECURE</h1>
        <h2 align="center"> File sharing made easier </h2>
        <div>
            <p>
                <a href="home.html">Home</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
                <a href="group.html">Group</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
                <a href="groupuser.html">Group User</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
                <a href="groupadmin.html">Group Admin</a> > <a href="groupadminsignup.html">Sign Up</a>
            </p>
            <h3 align="center">Enter your valid details</h3>
       
            <form action="insert1.php" method="POST">
                <p>
                    Email-ID:<input type="text" name="email"   required/><br />
                    D.O.B:<input type="text" name="dob" size="10"  placeholder="DD/MM/YY" required/><br />
                    User name:<input type="text" name="uname" size="20"  required/><br />
                    Password:<input id="first" type="password" name="pass"  size="10" onkeyup="CheckPasswordStrength(this.value)"  required/><span id="password_strength"></span><br />
                    <br />
                    Verify password:<input id="second" type="password" name="vpass"  size="10" required/><br />
                    <div class="tim">
                        <button type="reset" class="btn-lg btn-primary">&nbsp;<i class="fa fa-undo" aria-hidden="true">&nbsp;Reset&nbsp;</i></button>&nbsp;&nbsp;
                        <button type="submit" name="submit" onclick="chkpass()" class="btn-lg btn-primary"><i class="fa fa-chevron-circle-right" aria-hidden="true">&nbsp;Submit</i></button>
                    </div>
            </form>
        </div>
        <script type="text/javascript">
    function CheckPasswordStrength(password) 
    {       
        var password_strength = document.getElementById("password_strength");
         //TextBox left blank.
            if (password.length == 0) {
                password_strength.innerHTML = "";
                return;
            }

            //Regular Expressions.
            var regex = new Array();
            regex.push("[A-Z]"); //Uppercase Alphabet.
            regex.push("[a-z]"); //Lowercase Alphabet.
            regex.push("[0-9]"); //Digit.
            regex.push("[$@$!%*#?&]"); //Special Character.

            var passed = 0;

            //Validate for each Regular Expression.
            for (var i = 0; i < regex.length; i++) {
                if (new RegExp(regex[i]).test(init)) {
                    passed++;
                }
            }

            //Validate for length of Password.
            if (passed > 2 && password.length > 8) {
                passed++;
            }

            //Display status.
            var color = "";
            var strength = "";
            switch (passed) {
                case 0:
                case 1:
                    strength = "Weak";
                    color = "red";
                    break;
                case 2:
                    strength = "Good";
                    color = "darkorange";
                    break;
                case 3:
                case 4:
                    strength = "Strong";
                    color = "green";
                    break;
                case 5:
                    strength = "Very Strong";
                    color = "darkgreen";
                    break;
            }
            password_strength.innerHTML = strength;
            password_strength.style.color = color;
        
    }
        </script>
    </body>
</html>

thanks in advance

2

I cleaned up your code.
You need to use triple backticks to post code to the forum.
See this post for details.

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3

Thank you,
didn’t know that will follow from now.

4

Better if you present your code on something like jsfiddle so we can debug it more easily.

5

I made a couple of changes:

function CheckPasswordStrength doesn’t know about init so I added it:
if (new RegExp(regex[i]).test(init)) { here it fails.

Also the values are not getting tested here:

var init=document.getElementById("first");
var sec=document.getElementById("second");

You need .value

6

Thanks, man! it worked.