Just a little post to share with you a modification i’ve made of the Pass Meter Jquery Plugin.

Initially, when you use the plugin, the strength meter appears in the password input.

Now you can use it outside the input easily, just add the outsideElt option:

var options = {outsideElt = '#myelt'};
$('input#mypassword').attachPassMeter(options);

where #myelt could be the class of your element or the id.