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Sometimes you want to show your user the strength of their password and although there a quite a few jQuery “plugins” that do this there are none - that I’ve found - that let you set the class of an element so that you can do a graphical representation of the strength. What I have put together is some code that I have been using on a few projects and turned it into a rough plugin. I say a rough plugin because it is very basic and not entirely flexible; let’s just call it a proof-of-concept.