How to Password-Protect a Shared HTML Page

A public link is perfect for some pages and wrong for others. A client draft, an internal report, or an early prototype should open for the people you choose and nobody else. Here is how to password-protect a shared HTML page so the link only works for those who have the password.

When a public link is too open

If you paste HTML and publish it as public, anyone who gets the URL can open it. That is fine for a launch page and risky for anything sensitive. Password protection keeps the same simple link, but adds a gate in front of it, so a forwarded URL alone is not enough to get in.

Protect a page in a few steps

1. Open ShareMyPage and create your page, or open one you already shared.
2. Set its visibility to Password protected and choose a password.
3. Copy the link and share it. Share the password separately, through a different channel.

Now anyone opening the link sees a prompt first. Enter the password and the page renders as normal. No password, no access. You can change or remove the password later without creating a new link.

The kind of page you would gate this way, a client proposal or an internal draft, looks like this once it is live:

Other ways to limit access

Password protection is one option. Depending on who the page is for, two others may fit better:

• Workspace keeps a page visible only to members of your team, with no password to pass around. See sharing pages with your team.
• Public stays available for the pages you do want open to everyone.

Share confidently

The point of sharing a page is to get it in front of people, but not always all people. A password lets you send a clean link for sensitive work and stay in control of who actually sees it.

Need to share something private? Create a page on ShareMyPage and set it to password protected.