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The title speaks for itself... I have a couple of forms, one of them is just a single text input form and the other one is composed by two text inputs. I do not want any submit button in any of them, I want each form to submit whenever the user presses the ENTER button at any text input:
Is there a way to make a form with more than one text input behave this way and avoid having a submit button in it?
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To submit the form using 'Enter' button, we will use jQuery keypress() method and to check the 'Enter' button is pressed or not, we will use 'Enter' button key code value. Explanation: We use the jQuery event. which to check the keycode on the keypress.
The formtarget attribute specifies a name or a keyword that indicates where to display the response that is received after submitting the form. The formtarget attribute overrides the target attribute of the <form> element. Note: The formtarget attribute is new for the <input> element with type="submit" in HTML5.
The Submit ButtonThe <input type="submit"> defines a button for submitting the form data to a form-handler. The form-handler is typically a file on the server with a script for processing input data. The form-handler is specified in the form's action attribute.
Try adding this between the <form></form> tags
<input type="submit" style="display: none" />
Tested it and it works on Firefox and Chrome. If you have a submit input type in the form, enter should automatically submit it, regardless of whether it's visible or not.
I am actually using this myself in a login form, though in the username field, it makes more sense to move to the next field than to submit. Just in case you have a similar use case, here's the code I used (requires jQuery)
$('#username').keypress(function(event) {
if (event.keyCode == 13 || event.which == 13) {
$('#password').focus();
event.preventDefault();
}
});
Note that there is a slight bug though -- if the user selects a browser autocomplete username and presses enter, it still moves to the next field instead of selecting it. Didn't have time to debug this, but if someone can figure out how to fix it, that would be cool.
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I was looking for a solution to this problem and want to share my solution, based on many posts over here. (Tested on modern Chrome/Firefox/IE)
So, using only Javascript the follow code submits the form if ENTER key is pressed on any field or if the button Submit is pressed. After that it clear/reset the form, which is a nice thing to do.
Hope it helps.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>
<p>Based on http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tryit.asp?filename=tryhtml5_ev_onsubmit</p>
<p>When you submit the form, a function is triggered which alerts some text.</p>
<div onKeyPress="return myFunction(event)">
<form id="form01" action="demo_form.asp" onsubmit="return false;" >
Enter name: <input type="text" name="fname">
<input type="button" value="Submit" onclick="myFunction(0)">
</form>
</div>
<script>
function myFunction(e) {
if((e && e.keyCode == 13) || e == 0) {
alert("The form was submitted");
document.forms.form01.submit();
document.forms.form01.fname.value = ""; // could be form01.reset as well
}
}
</script>
</body>
</html>
Be sure that your inputs are inside "form" element and give the "form" element an "action" attribute.
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