textarea - press enter to submit

mmilano

I have a textarea in my script that i need to submit when the user presses enter.

normally a textarea just goes to the next line when the user presses enter.

is there any way to make the textarea submit the form when the user presses enter inside the textarea?

i have been searching for a couple days and have found nothing.. please let me know if or if not this is possible.

thanks,
-mike

Anon

This is a complete shot in the dark, but try:

if the HTML was something like:

Haven't tried it...but I know it works if you want to place focus on a field when a page loads. I speculate if the focus is on the submit button, when they press enter...it will submit.

Best of luck,

Christian

Anon

hallo
i think, one solution will be to use javascript.
capture the key-events on the textarea
and if "return" typed submit the form,....

an other way is to set the tab-order, so that the user only have to type [TAB] [ENTER] ( i think that's easy enought )
for the concrete code search on some javascript-page, i don't know it by heart

cu tom

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Q: Why use a multi-line textarea if you're not going to allow multi-line input?

mmilano

Thanks for all your help =)

The reason is so a user can see a lot of text on the screen when the words wrap inside the field.. but they are requesting to hit enter when they are done typing the words.

it is a support issue that they are typing so they will need to see their entire entry.

thanks again for the help.. i'm gonna try it out now.