Pressing return(enter) key will not submit form

Anon

I have a form that users will put the information.
I dont want to allow users to hit enter(return) key when they want to submit the form. Instead they have to press the submit button. How can I do that?

Anon

I had the same problem too. However I don't know the cause of it (it seems to happen randomly or so), I know a workaround. I guess check in PHP if the form is submitted by saying

   if ($submit) {
      ...
   }
   else {
      // Show form
   }

The $submit var (or however you named your submit-button) is empty, while all other variables are set. So I'd use this

   if ($name && $email && $password) {
      ...
   }
   else {
      // Show form
   }

Hope this helps. Greetz,

Vincent Driessen
Venlo, The Netherlands

Anon

Make sure the type of button isn\\'t \\"submit\\" but is \\"button\\". Example:

Make an onclick event handler -->

function sbmt()
{
document.\\"name of the form\\".submit();
}
</SCRIPT>

If the user presses enter nothing will happen! Most likely your computer will beep. I don\\'t know how you can turn that off...

Anon

Well, first of all submitting the form on enter key is only related to IE, Netscape doesn't submit the form on hitting the return key. Now i would like to add to the last thread that hitting the return key will still submit the form even if there is no <input type="submit">, if there is only one text box in the form. work around to this is that you write a small size text box and hide it using DHTML, like visibility="hidden" incase of IE browsers. it will stop the form submission on return key coz there are now two text boxes instead on one. Don't worry about Netscape coz it doesn't submit the form anyway.