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HTML

<body>
    <form onsubmit="return chkpass()" method="POST" action"/" >
        <input type="text" id="nom" placeholder="Nombre" />
        <input type="password" id="pass" placeholder="Contraseña" />
        <input type="submit" value="Enviar" />
    </form>
</body>

JavaScript

function chkpass(){
    if(true){ //Aquí haces tus comprobaciones
        if(!alert("El password debe ser al menos de 8 caracteres.")){
                document.getElementById("pass").value=("");
                document.getElementById("pass").focus();
        }
        return false;
    }else{
        return true;
    }
}