I find it easiest right-click>inspect the password field in chrome, and paste my password directly into the html value field.
Another thing to note, if you're particularly trying to load up, is you can buy I-bonds as a 'gift', separate of your individual limit. Specifically you and your spouse can buy $10k each directly, plus each buy $10k as a gift to the other (thus $40k total). You can actually buy >$10k as a gift for someone, but you can't transfer beyond $10k a year to that person, effectively increasing the minimum hold period.
Also a general note - you can enter your payment account electronically, but ever changing it requires mailing a form! So choose wisely.
I might be wrong but don't gifts count against the recipient's annual $10k limit? That is, you could only give $2k to someone who has purchased $8k for themselves, all within the same year?
Though, here is a Bogleheads thread where people suggest buying gift bonds even beyond 10k as you mention, to get higher interest rates now, storing them in the TreasuryDirect "gift box" until a year where the recipient comes in under the limit and they can be transferred.
Yes, but buying and 'delivering' the gift are two separate actions. So I can buy $30k in bonds for you today (which benefit from the current rates), held in the gift box until I transfer them to you. But as you said, I can only transfer $10k/year less any purchases you make that same year.
In the 1 year hold case (buying direct + gifts for 1 year only) you can transfer and immediately sell the gifts alongside the original bonds, in the new year.
If I recall the right click & enter password as HTML didn't work. Neither did selecting the input element & modifying the value. Those are my first 2 I usually try. I'm assuming they're doing some crazy silly state/event tracking with their virtual keyboard elsewhere. I didn't dig into it that close. I just grumbled & shook my head.
Another thing to note, if you're particularly trying to load up, is you can buy I-bonds as a 'gift', separate of your individual limit. Specifically you and your spouse can buy $10k each directly, plus each buy $10k as a gift to the other (thus $40k total). You can actually buy >$10k as a gift for someone, but you can't transfer beyond $10k a year to that person, effectively increasing the minimum hold period.
Also a general note - you can enter your payment account electronically, but ever changing it requires mailing a form! So choose wisely.