Preventing a form from submitting?

[timmerk]

Hi,

I have a textbox, and on change, it runs a javascript function. However, if the user hits the enter key in that textbox, I just want the JS to run, and not the whole page to be submited.

Any ideas how to do this?

Thanks!

[seby]

i dont think its possible not to submit if they hit the enter key while the cursor is on the text box. at least if a submit button is present.

[LordShryku]

http://javascript.internet.com/

[steps]

This is not a PHP question !

Nevertheless I hope I can help you. But don't tell anybody 😉

In the form-tag you can embed an eventhandler called onsubmit='...' that calls a javascript function. If this function returns false, the form is not submitted.

So create this function in a way that it returns false, but before that calls your function for that textfield.