Making my form submit link the defaul

samoff · Sep 6, 2004

I have a form which is submitted by a link with a call to submit(). It all works fine.

My problem is that I can't make this link the default action when a user fills in the form and presses [Enter].
My page has two such forms - I need a solution that knows which form to submit.

ta very much.

sam

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http://www.waitallday.com

vbkris · Sep 6, 2004

use keydown, when u have a submit button it is enabled by default, if there is no submit button then:
<input type="text" ...... onkeydown="event.keyCode==13?submit():''">

this is assuming that keycode of "Enter" is 13...

Known is handfull, Unknown is worldfull

stewartwebb · Sep 6, 2004

I can help you on knowing whether the user has pressed 'Enter'.

Have a function which checks the key pressed.

function checkEnter()
{
if(window.event.keyCode == 13)
{
document.formName.submit();
}
}

However as you have 2 forms i'm not sure how you can capture which form the user is in.

If you had 1 form, between the <script> tags i'd put
document.onKeyUp = "checkEnter()"
to perform the function above.

The only thing I can suggest at the moment is that on every input field you have and depending which input fields are in which form have individual calls to 2 different functions.

-Functions.
// To submit form1
function firstFormEnter()
{
if(window.event.keyCode == 13)
{
document.form1.submit();
}
}

// To submit form2
function secondFormEnter()
{
if(window.event.keyCode == 13)
{
document.form2.submit();
}
}

-For form1.
<body>
<form name="form1">
<input type="text" name="text1" onKeyUp="firstFormEnter();">
</form>
</body>

-For form2.
<body>
<form name="form2">
<input type="text" name="text2" onKeyUp="secondFormEnter();">
</form>
</body>

hth

Stewart

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