Enter submits for, but I don't want it to...

[grande]

I have the following function:

function keyclick(e) {
	var keynum;
	if (window.event) {    // IE
		keynum = e.keyCode; }
	else {                 // Opera, Netscape, Firefox
		keynum = e.which; }
	if (keynum == 13) {
		// Enter pressed, do other stuff
	}
}
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That's supposed to trap the enter key.  However, the code never gets called because the page refreshes itself.  How do I tell the page not to refresh on Enter?

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[cLFlaVA]

what objects/elements are you attaching that function to? what does your form look like?



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[grande]

Okay, well it turns out that I just made a stupid mistake and forgot to Add the Attribute in my C# code. So now, the code gets fired, but the page still reloads.

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[theniteowl]

Your code is not doing anything except analyzing whether the key pressed was the return key.

You need to detect the keypress event with:

onkeypress="return keyclick(event);"

And you need to add a return false to your function:

function keyclick(e) {
    var keynum;
    if (window.event) {    // IE
        keynum = e.keyCode; }
    else {                 // Opera, Netscape, Firefox
        keynum = e.which; }
    if (keynum == 13) {
        // Enter pressed, do other stuff
      [COLOR=blue]return false;[/color]
    }
}

It somewhat depends on how you are trapping the event.
If you put the onkeypress event in the submit button tag it will not stop enter from submitting unless focus is on the submit button. If you put it in the body tag it will trap all presses of enter on the page.


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