How To Stop The Web Page Title From Becoming the Password when Entered Options

[MoodyCurry2001]

I am currently working on making an html page that is protected by a password and whenever the correct password is submitted, this is added to the link: ?password=password. How do I prevent this from happening?

Code: https://pastebin.com/tcyKtbbv

[pandy]

So you want it as it is now except you don't what the "password" to show in the query string?

Add 'method="post" to the FORM tag.
https://htmlhelp.com/reference/html40/forms/form.html
Since you haven't specified a method it defaults to GET and the form data is passed in a query string.

You aren't going to use this for something important? Because it doesn't offer any real protection at all.

[MoodyCurry2001]

Thank you for the quick response! I won't be using for anything that serious, it's just for a school project. Thanks!

[pandy]

I suspected it was something like that. You're welcome.

[MoodyCurry2001]

Nothing seemed to change when I added (method="post"). The URL still changes. Here is my updated code:

https://pastebin.com/d85H5NwQ

[pandy]

Are you sure the HTML you are using is exactly the same as that at pastebin? Because it should work and does for me.