Submit button and the Enter Key

riddlejk

I have a single form that has a textbox and a submit button. When the user clicks the submit button two variable are passed(good!!). When the user fills in the textbox and hits enter only one variable is passed(bad!!). The submit button gains focus when the the textbox has the cursor but the submit button's value isn't passed to the next page. Does anyone know how to fix this. Thanks for any help.

Blob

Hmm... Interesting... I'm not sure about this... Could you post your code?

riddlejk

I realize this is more of a HTML question, but this community has been very helpful in the past. Thanks for the time
<code>
<?php
session_start();
?>
<html>
<body>
<center>
<br><br>
<table border = 2 WIDTH = 400 cellpadding = 4>
<form action="buttontest.php" method = "get">
<tr><td align=center colspan = 2><font size = 4><b>
Submit Button Question???</font></b></td></tr>
<tr>
<td align = center width = 200>
<br>Enter password..<br><br>
<input type="password" name = "adminpass" mxalength = "20"><br>
</td>
<td align = center width = 200><br>
And click continue...<br><br>
<input type="submit" name="portal" value="Continue"><br><br>
</td>
</tr>
</form>
</table>
</center>
</body>
</html>
</code>

laserlight

hmm... maybe it is a feature/bug of the GET method in forms?
Maybe try method="post" and see if there's any progress.

suntra

Maybe simply because your browser thinks like this...
"enter = send the form"
... but not...
"enter = send the form USING the submit button"

Since the user didn't click the submit button, the value isn't sent... personnally, what I do to detect a form has been sent is to use an hidden value...

<?
$actn = (isset($_REQUEST["actn"])) ? $_REQUEST["actn"] : "";
switch($actn) {
case "value1":
// code...
break;
case "value2":
// code...
break;
default:
?>
<FORM ...>
<INPUT NAME="actn" VALUE="valuex" TYPE="HIDDEN">
Your name : <INPUT .....
...............
..............
<INPUT VALUE="Submit" TYPE="SUBMIT">
</FORM>
<?
}
?>

riddlejk

theh post method does the same thing, but it is easier to see with get. WHen a user strikes CR with the submit button in focus the value should be sent as though the button was clicked. I was just wondering if I didn't call/format something correctly. Thanks all.