Comments on: Block Enter Key Submit

By: Goushnoulg Bougourlouvitch

Goushnoulg Bougourlouvitch — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:43:17 +0000

There was a problem I was facing with a web form I made, and that was that whenever the user pressed the enter key while typing in a text box, he was taken to the previous page. Obviously it was very irritating so I thought about making up a javascript routine to eat away the Enter key. At first I made up a function using window.event and that was working perfectly fine until I discovered that it wasn’t working in Firefox 3. So I starting googling things out and came up with this function. This baby works fine in both browsers.

And never forget this : PHP is server-side technology and therefore runs on the server – so there is no way for it to determine what keys where pressed at the client (aka the user).

getElementById is not overrated its just not documented enough

By: Jason G.

Jason G. — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 18:22:11 +0000

My example on this page should only be showing the code… it wasn’t initially, but I fixed it now.

Make sure you set up the javascript right… you need to wrap the js portion in script tags for the page to find it properly.

By: Gustavo Cornejo

Gustavo Cornejo — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 14:21:41 +0000

In FF2 I’m getting:
in your page: blokEnter is not defined
I think the function isn’t included in your page.

But using it in my page I get another error:
setting a property that has only a getter