Creating Accounts - Password Symbol Issue

[kylecourounis]

When it asks for a symbol when creating your password, you are unable to use a dash ("-"). The browser won't let you continue, but it won't tell you why. This is important for user retention.

[AnanyaPaliwal01]

Hi @kylecourounis, I think we can fix this by adding a span in the list of spans that displays the special characters that are not permitted, what do you think about this @briangormanly, something like this <span id="special" class="invalid"><b>Special characters not allowed </b>_-+=^</span><br />, I also observed that these special characters _, -,+, = & ^ are also not allowed and for these as well no message is shown

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[AnanyaPaliwal01]

Another solution could also be that we allow _, -, +, = & ^ in passwords, what are your thoughts on this @kylecourounis, @briangormanly

[AnanyaPaliwal01]

On the website, we have directly displayed the regex expression like this A special character ($@$!%*#?&) rather we can remove the duplicate $ sign and refactor it as this A special character !@$#%&*?

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[AnanyaPaliwal01]

Hi @briangormanly we can discuss what should be done here, and then you can assign me this issue, as I would like to work on it and see it through completion