submit button, "press" & "enter

[bike5]

How do I get the submit to submit when I hit enter. I have to press submit with my mouse to make the button work, if I just hit enter, it clicks the button but nothing happens? BTW, This is a button that POST to the same page its on.

Thanks, Danny.

[Anon]

if you are trying to key some action on whether the submit button is pressed, you can get around this... what i do is name the button "sub_button" then create a hidden field named "submit" with value "submit". Then in the form-processing page, you can do:

if ($submit) {
do something;
}

does the trick.

[rrijnders]

Generally, browsers will map the <ENTER> key to emulate a mouseclick for whatever page element currently has focus. Most browsers are smart enough to emulate the "SUBMIT" for a form <i>if</i> the cursor is currently in one of the form's fields. The exception to this is if the cursor is in a field that allows CR/LF's (like a text area), or if you have javascript event handlers on the form fields.

If your sure that your form doesn't have any of these exceptions, post a pointer to the page and I will take a look at it.

-- Rich