Enter Key in netscape does not submit form

ChrisQuick · Dec 22, 2000

I have two forms laid out as follows:

<FORM NAME='searchbyowner' Method='GET' ACTION='somepage.asp'>
<B>Owner:</B>
<INPUT TYPE='text' NAME='Owner' VALUE='' MAXLENGTH=30 SIZE=30>
<INPUT TYPE='HIDDEN' NAME='CMD' VALUE='FINDOWNER'>
<INPUT TYPE='submit' VALUE='FindOwner'>
</FORM>

<FORM NAME='searchbyadd' Method='GET' ACTION='somepage.asp'">
<INPUT TYPE='hidden' name='cmd' VALUE='FindAddress'>
<b>Address Number</b>
<INPUT TYPE='text' name='num' value='' MAXLENGTH='5' SIZE=5>
<b>Street:</B>
<INPUT TYPE='text' NAME='street' VALUE='' MAXLENGTH=30 SIZE=30,1>
<INPUT TYPE='submit' VALUE='FindAddress'>
</FORM>

In Internet Explorer, if you fill in an input for a form and hit enter, the form associated with that input is submitted. In Netscape, I have to actually click the submit button to submit the form. Is this normal in Netscape?

Thanks chrisquick@aol.com
Geographic Information System (GIS), ASP, some Oracle

luciddream · Dec 22, 2000

yes adam@aauser.com

iza · Dec 22, 2000

... if something can be called "normal" in nn<6 ... ;-)

jaredn · Dec 22, 2000

you can make it so the enter key will submit the form, though:

<script>
function handleKey(e)
{
if(e.which==13)
{
document.fut.submit();
}
}
</script>
</head>

<body>
<form name="fut" method="GET" action="somewhere.asp">
<input type="text" name="jive" onkeypress="handleKey(event)">
<input type="submit">
</form>

this will only work in Netscape (and probaly not in ver 6). jared@aauser.com

palbano · Dec 22, 2000

> this will only work in Netscape (and probaly not in ver 6).

Yeah, another version of the Nasty browser to have to develop to. No problem really I just add another case to my switch statement. What's one more when there are already 273 versions of the Nasty browser. ;-)

-pete

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Enter Key in netscape does not submit form

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