Clicking or pressing 'enter'

Anon

I have a script that requests an account number and then on to a password. With the first section I find that you can't just type in the info and press the enter button. You have to either click on "enter" or tab and then enter. All the other pages work just fine except this one.

Any ideas please.

Thanks

Anon

I.E. seems to always work, but not Netscape.

Netscape (Windows or Linux) seems to only accept simple INPUT tags inside of a FORM -- usually single INPUT tags at that.

I.E. can handle pages with mutiple FORM tags, multiple INPUT tags, etc.

I think what you're describing is browser dependent.

I also think it can be rigged using JavaScript, to make it work properly in Netscape, but that'll take some work.

smarlowe

You're script is likely programmed to look for the value being passed in the button. If the form looks like this:

[form ...>
[input type=text name=usename>
[input type=submit name=action value=Process>
[/form>

And the php on the other end starts like this:

if ($action=="Process"){
code goes here
}

Then hitting enter won't work because the var $action never gets set.

Change the form to add this:

[input type=hidden name=action value=Process>

And it should work (note, replace [ with left angle bracket...)

smarlowe

Actually, the problem is that when you hit enter on IE nowadays, it submits the form and "clicks" the first button in the form for you (i.e. submit's it's value)

So, if you have a large form with lots of text fields, followed by a button that says delete first, and a button that says save second, and you hit return, IE helpfully submits the form and clicks delete for you.

You wouldn't believe how many pages have had to change due to this behaviour of IE.

This is bad behaviour in my opinion, but I don't use that browser or the OSes it runs on, thank the gods.