How to make "Enter" key in a textarea submit a form

Question

I have a chat that uses textarea instead of text for obvious reasons. This is why each time members hit ENTER they get a new line instead of sending the message. I would like to change this, so every time they hit ENTER =the message to be submitted and then the cursor to return on textarea for their next message typing. I've tried different codes found on this site, most didnt work and those who seemed to do something were just refreshing the page and i got a blank page.

My code:

<form name="message" action="">     <textarea name="usermsg" autocomplete="off" type="text" id="usermsg" rows="4" cols="30" style="width: 450px; margin-left: 25px;">     </textarea>     <br/>      <p style="margin-left: 420px;"><input name="submitmsg" type="submit"  id="submitmsg" value="Send" /></p> </form> 

Thank you very much for your time.

Answer 1

Try this (note that pressing Enter submits, and Shift+Enter adds a new line).

$("#textareaId").keypress(function (e) {     if(e.which === 13 && !e.shiftKey) {         e.preventDefault();              $(this).closest("form").submit();     } });