Don't submit form when ENTER key pressed

cawthor · Nov 16, 2005

I have a form with various text boxes. When a user presses the ENTER key whilst in one of the text boxes, the form is submitted. Can I disable this and just move the tabindex to the next text box? I don't want the form to submit until the user clicks on the 'Submit' button.

Thanks.

cLFlaVA · Nov 16, 2005

works in IE 6.0.2800 and FF 1.0.6:

Code:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">[/URL]

<html>
<head>
<title>new document</title>

<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
<!--

function tabNext(e, i) {
    if (e.keyCode == 13)
	    document.forms['f'].elements[i].focus();
	return false;
}

-->
</script>

<style type="text/css">

</style>

</head>

<body>
<form name="f">

  <input type="text" name="t1" onkeypress="return tabNext(event, 't2');" /><br />
  <input type="text" name="t2" onkeypress="return tabNext(event, 't3');" /><br />
  <input type="text" name="t3" onkeypress="return tabNext(event, 't4');" /><br />
  <input type="text" name="t4" onkeypress="return tabNext(event, 's');" /><br />
  <input type="submit" name="s" />
</form>
</body>

</html>

*cLFlaVA
----------------------------
[tt]I already made like infinity of those at scout camp...[/tt]
beware of active imagination: [URL unfurl="true"]http://www.coryarthus.com/[/url]

BillyRayPreachersSonIsTheLeetestHax0rDude
[banghead]

cawthor · Nov 16, 2005

Thank you very much! Works great.

theniteowl · Nov 16, 2005

cLFlaVA
What happens if the next element does not have the ability to get the focus? Does it go to the next or do we lose the position in the tab order and start at the beginning again?

Guess I could try it out. Just trying to avoid any REAL thought until after lunch.

Paranoid? ME?? WHO WANTS TO KNOW????

cLFlaVA · Nov 16, 2005

well the way i coded this was to expicitly state what you want the "next element" to be.

*cLFlaVA
----------------------------
[tt]I already made like infinity of those at scout camp...[/tt]
beware of active imagination: [URL unfurl="true"]http://www.coryarthus.com/[/url]

BillyRayPreachersSonIsTheLeetestHax0rDude
[banghead]

theniteowl · Nov 16, 2005

Well see, that's where the not thinking until after lunch kicks in.
I scan the code but do not digest it. Digestion will not occur again until after I get some food.

Paranoid? ME?? WHO WANTS TO KNOW????

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