[thelist] Can't submit form data with 'enter' key in IE

Tab Alleman talleman at Lumpsum.com
Tue Mar 7 14:29:49 CST 2006


Is anything happening in the lower left corner of the browser when you hit 'enter'?   No yellow exclamation point?

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> [mailto:thelist-bounces at lists.evolt.org]On Behalf Of Peter Brunone
> (EasyListBox.com)
> Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2006 3:16 PM
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> Subject: Re: [thelist] Can't submit form data with 'enter' key in IE
> 
> 
> It should be doing that by default, or so I thought... if 
> not, you can add the following to your body element (or any 
> sub-element therein):
> 
> onkeydown="if(window.event.keyCode==13){document.forms[0].submit();}"
> 
> Of course you'd probably want to encapsulate this to avoid 
> errors in Mozilla, which uses event.which instead of event.keyCode.
> 
> HTH,
> 
> Peter
> 
>  From: "Jim Davis" jim4realty at gmail.com
> 
> I have a form with a text field for input and a submit button 
> used to search
> a database. In Fire Fox, entering text in the text field and 
> hitting the
> keyboard 'enter' key will return the search result. In IE, 
> however, entering
> the same text and hitting the keyboard 'enter' key returns no 
> result. IE
> requires the 'submit' button to be clicked to perform the 
> search. What do I
> need to do to get IE to respond correctly to the 'enter' key?
> 
> Jim Davis
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