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TOPIC: Prevent 'enter' key from submitting form

Prevent 'enter' key from submitting form 13 years 10 months ago #14228

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I've noticed in a couple of instances where form respondents hit the enter key after filling in the first field - which submits the form without allowing them to enter the rest of the fields.

Is there a way to prevent this from happening? (ie., 'enter' does NOT trigger the <submit> button)
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Re:Prevent 'enter' key from submitting form 13 years 9 months ago #14292

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Hello,

This can be achieved, but it will require some custom scripting, please try adding the following code in the "CSS and Javascript" tab:
<script type="text/javascript">
 
function stopRKey(evt) {
var evt = (evt) ? evt : ((event) ? event : null);
var node = (evt.target) ? evt.target : ((evt.srcElement) ? evt.srcElement : null);
if ((evt.keyCode == 13) && (node.type=="text")) {return false;}
}
 
document.onkeypress = stopRKey;
 
</script>
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Re:Prevent 'enter' key from submitting form 13 years 9 months ago #14520

Where do you put the function? Does it need to assigned to the send button?

It works because I've deleted the other function which was already there in CSS & JavaScript. Enter doesn't do anything anymore.

What do I need to do to use multiple functions?
Last Edit: 13 years 9 months ago by alice24springs. Reason: Got it to work but with some cons
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Re:Prevent 'enter' key from submitting form 12 years 9 months ago #18325

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Alice24springs,

Just saw your post while grabbing the code for a form I needed it for.

You can put multiple functions inside the Javascript area either by bracketing each one in <script></script> or just place each one one after another inside the one set of <script></script> tags.

Patrick
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Re:Prevent 'enter' key from submitting form 8 years 11 months ago #35157

andreic wrote:
Hello,

This can be achieved, but it will require some custom scripting, please try adding the following code in the "CSS and Javascript" tab:
<script type="text/javascript">
 
function stopRKey(evt) {
var evt = (evt) ? evt : ((event) ? event : null);
var node = (evt.target) ? evt.target : ((evt.srcElement) ? evt.srcElement : null);
if ((evt.keyCode == 13) && (node.type=="text")) {return false;}
}
 
document.onkeypress = stopRKey;
 
</script>

hi
its very useful code
how can i use this code for autotab? i want a JavaScript cod for Make enter key behave like tab key

its very useful for filling forms by Baroda scanner...
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Re:Prevent 'enter' key from submitting form 2 years 7 months ago #42262

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Did you ever get a response on how to set up the Enter key to behave as the Tab key? I would also like to know how to do that.
Thanks.
Last Edit: 2 years 7 months ago by ls-arch. Reason: corrected punctuation
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Prevent 'enter' key from submitting form 1 year 9 months ago #42870

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Hello,

I know this is an old post, but I'm looking to solve this same problem, ie disable the enter key for submitting a form.

I have tried adding the javascript code into the javascript panel, but it's not working.

Should this code still work?

Any help greatly appreciated.

D
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