We will be looking at two approaches to achieve this. With and without using jQuery.
1. Using jQuery
You need to add a keyup function to both of your password and confirm password fields. The reason being that the text equality should be checked even if the password field changes. Thanks @kdjernigan for pointing that out
In this way, when you type in the field you will know if the password is same or not:
$('#password, #confirm_password').on('keyup', function () {
if ($('#password').val() == $('#confirm_password').val()) {
$('#message').html('Matching').css('color', 'green');
} else
$('#message').html('Not Matching').css('color', 'red');
});<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<label>password :
<input name="password" id="password" type="password" />
</label>
<br>
<label>confirm password:
<input type="password" name="confirm_password" id="confirm_password" />
<span id='message'></span>
</label>and here is the fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/aelor/F6sEv/325/
2. Without using jQuery
We will use the onkeyup event of javascript on both the fields to achieve the same effect.
var check = function() {
if (document.getElementById('password').value ==
document.getElementById('confirm_password').value) {
document.getElementById('message').style.color="green";
document.getElementById('message').innerHTML = 'matching';
} else {
document.getElementById('message').style.color="red";
document.getElementById('message').innerHTML = 'not matching';
}
}<label>password :
<input name="password" id="password" type="password" onkeyup='check();' />
</label>
<br>
<label>confirm password:
<input type="password" name="confirm_password" id="confirm_password" onkeyup='check();' />
<span id='message'></span>
</label>and here is the fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/aelor/F6sEv/324/