William Eaton - Scripts & Function

Pressing enter does not submit form

Problem: pressing enter on form just refreshes page/ Pressing enter in textbox refreshes page

All forms submit one of two ways…

• By clicking submit
• By pressing the ‘enter’ key

Sometimes you may find that pressing enter only resubmits the form or appears to just refresh it.

Reason/Solution

This is a kind of bug with html and is caused by the fact that there is only one textbox in the form, either add another text box and it will work or if you only have one field to enter then add a hidden one like so…

<input name=”" type=”t” value=”" style=”display:none”>

Dont worry, it wont affect any dynamic collection of the POST or GET values as it doesnt have a name.