enter in text area

Coruba67

Is there a way I can get a form to submit if I press the enter (or return on mac) key from within a text area? I am guessing I may need to call a java script function for this, I just have never worked with Java before so any help would be awesome!

Thanks again!

coldwerturkey

nope, so yes; you will need something client side like javascript to do this. try a search, there are tons of results.

(just for the future, note that this thread should of been posted in ClientSide Technologies; it has nothing to do with php. and also note that Javascript is not "Java", they're two completely different things.)

Coruba67

Ok cool, thanks for that - so I picked up some bits and slightly modified them, this is what I ended up with for the javascript

<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">
<!--
var isShift=null;
var isNN = (navigator.appName.indexOf("Netscape")!=-1);
var OP = (navigator.appName.indexOf("Opera")!=-1);
if(OP)isNN=true;
var key;
function shift(event)
{
	key = (isNN) ? event.which : event.keyCode;
	if (key==16)isShift=1;
}
function process(event)
{
	key = (isNN) ? event.which : event.keyCode;
	if(document.layers&&event.modifiers==4)
	{
		isShift=1;
	}
	if (key==13&&isShift!=1)
	{
		document.sendmessage.submit();
	}
	if (key!=16)isShift=null;
}
//-->
</script>

Then I have my text area defined as follows

		<textarea name="message" onkeypress="process(event)" onkeydown="shift(event)" cols="75" rows="3"></textarea>

This however does nothing when I hit submit except for the standard text area function... Any idea's where this has gone wrong?

The error the browser is reporting is related to this part of the java script

document.sendmessage.submit();

sendmessage is the name of my form - its saying that this object does not support this property or method.