Submit a form using enter

[Dave L]

I am having trouble writing a function that will allow users to submit
a form that is in a modal popup using the enter key in IE6. It works
in all other browsers. I was thinking something along the lines of
this:

$('form_submit').onkeydown="if(event.keyCode==13){this.form.submit
();return false;};"

but this doesnt seem to work...Does anyone have any ideas?

[pradeep saraswati]

hai

u are using $('form_submit')  --------does form_submit is the id of the form....

then it will surely does not gonna work in I.E

so you specify a name to the form....and access the form....


document.form.formname.onkeydown--------> this will work in ie...

i too faced this issue....just try this u r problem will be solved....

if u are too much particular in accessing form using $...then use $F and never access form using the id
IE will never know..what you are doing...if you access form by id

Regards
spradeepkumar

[Dave L]

Im not sure I understand. login_form is the id of the form that I am
trying to submit. and form_submit is the id of the actual submit
button. I tried the following:

document.form.login_form.onkeydown="if(event.keyCode==13)
{this.form.submit();return false;};"

and also

$('login_form').form_submit.onkeydown="if(event.keyCode==13)
{this.form.submit();return false;};"

but no go. Thanks for your input.

[Hector Virgen]

This is untested, but I would probably do something like this:

$$('form[name=login_form]').invoke('observe', 'keydown', function(event)
{
    if (event.keyCode === 13) {
        event.findElement('form').submit();
    }
});

-Hector

[Miguel Beltran R.]

>Im not sure I understand.  login_form is the id of the form that I am
>trying to submit.  and form_submit is the id of the actual submit
>button. I tried the following:

I don't understand. what is your html code?
if your button is type submit, when it pressed send the form automatic



document.observe('dom:loaded', function(){
   $('login_submit').invoke('observe', 'submit', function(evt){
      evt.stop();
      //do stuff
   });
});
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[Gabriel Gilini]

This is just stupid.

Why in the world would you want to stop the default action when the Enter key is pressed in a form, to do the exact same thing by yourself?

Gabriel Gilini

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[RobG]

You don't have to do anything. If an input has focus and the user
presses the enter key, the form's submit method will be called.


--
Rob

[Rick Waldron]

I whipped this together, tested and confirmed:

document.observe("dom:loaded", function () {
$('login_form').observe('keydown', function (e) {

if ( e.keyCode == 13 ) {
//event.findElement('form').submit();
alert($F('login_str'));
}
});

}, false);


the form i set up looks like:

<form id=login_form>
<input type=text id=login_str>


</form>

[Dave L]

Submitting a form in a modal popup in IE6 with enter does not work.

On Dec 10, 10:12 am, "Gabriel Gilini" <gabr...@usosim.com.br> wrote:
> This is just stupid.Why in the world would you want to stop the default

> action when the Enter key is pressed in a form, to do the exact same thing
> by yourself?
>
> Gabriel Gilini
>
> www.usosim.com.br

> gabr...@usosim.com.br
> gabr...@souagil.com.br

[Dave L]

I tried all the above solutions but none seem to work. This is in a
modal popup, so its almost as if the javascript is not finding the
form element or something. Im using ruby on rails, so I defined the
id's of the form and the submit button inline if that helps at all:

<% form_remote_for :new_user, :url => {:controller =>
'account', :action => 'authenticate'},
:html => {:id => 'login_form'} do |f| -%>
<%= image_submit_tag "buttons/login.png", :id => 'form_submit'
%>
<% end %>

[Hector Virgen]

Does the form (or modal) happen to be in an iframe?

-Hector

[Gabriel Gilini]

There's no such thing as a "modal popup" in HTML specs, and you could do it a million ways. Your HTML is probably broken.
If you may post the generated markup plus the doctype and tested environments, it should be easier to spot the problem.

Gabriel Gilini

www.usosim.com.br
gab...@usosim.com.br
gab...@souagil.com.br

[Dave L]

Yes, I am using the DOM popup Kit: http://www.methods.co.nz/popup/popup.html,
which I think uses iframes for the popup to function correctly in
IE6. Is that a problem?