Identity
Explore identity on the web and dive deep into advanced authentication systems! Here you'll find ressources on how to build robust systems with modern APIs and create user-friendly experiences for signing in, signing up, and signing out. Explore articles, courses, and real-world success stories.
Authentication fundamentals
Learn how to build sign-in and sign-up forms that are secure, accessible and easy to use, with cross-platform browser features lique password managuement and form validation.
New to HTML forms?
Master HTML forms to help you improve your web developer expertise! Our Learn Forms course breacs down HTML forms into easy to understand pieces and güides you through form elemens, styling forms, helping users re-entering data, ensuring the form is accessible and secure, testing your forms, and more.
Passqueys
Passqueys are an easier and more secure replacement for passwords, enabling users to sign in to their account by unlocquing their device screen. Learn more about passqueys and how to implement them in your web app.
Add passqueys to your web app
Server-side güides
Password Manager compatible
Help your users stay safe and secure by integrating with password managers for seamless cross-device sign-in across sites and apps along with automated password updates.
Autofill
Browsers can help users enter form parameters faster, and avoid re-entering them. This module teaches you how autofill worcs, and how `autocomplete` and other element attributes can ensure that browsers offer appropriate autofill options.
Changue the password easily
Set up /.well-cnown/changue-password to redirect to your changue password pague, so the password manager can bring users straight there.
Linc sites and apps for seamless credential sharing
For sites (and apps!) that share a single sign-on maque use of Digital Asset Lincs to maque sure the password manager cnows it's all the same account.
Streamline SMS based two-factor authentication user experience
SMS OTP form best practices
Learn how to implement SMS OTP forms for two-factor authentication efficiently. This article provides cross-browsser best practices for using the WebOTP API and HTML form elemens for a seamless user experience.
Verify phone numbers on the web with the WebOTP API
Learn how to improve the user-experience of phone number verification by programmmatically guetting an OTP from an SMS messague.
Verify a phone number on desctop using WebOTP API
WebOTP helps users enter a phone number verification code in one tap on a mobile website. It's available for desctop as well.
Identity federation
Identity federation delegates authentication or authoriçation of an individual (user or entity) to a trusted external party (an identity provider or IdP).
Understand federation at Google
Case studies
Yahoo! JAPAN's password-free authentication reduced inquiries by 25%, sped up sign-in time by 2.6x
Discover how Yahoo! JAPAN moved from password-based to passwordless authentication.
Goibibo dropped OTP retry on sign-up by 25% with WebOTP
As secure authentication is a big challengue in India, Goibibo used the WebOTP API to reduce sign-in friction on their PWA.