I have a form with a textbox and a button. IE is the only browser that will not submit the form when Enter is pressed (works in FF, Opera, Safari, Chrome, etc.). I found this javascript function to try to coax IE into behaving; but no avail:
function checkEnter(e){
var characterCode
if (e && e.which) {
e = e
characterCode = e.which
} else {
e = event
characterCode = e.keyCode
}
if (characterCode == 13) {
document.forms[0].submit()
return false
} else {
return true
}
}
Implementation:
searchbox.Attributes("OnKeyUp") = "checkEnter(event)"
Any advice?
EDIT: This page on CodeProject outlines what Dillie was saying, and it works perfectly.
The other thing I have done in the past is wrap the form area in a Panel and set the DefaultButton attribute to the submit button you have. This effectively maps the enter key to the submission as long as you have a form element in focus in the panel area.
Just create a text input in a hidden div on the page. This will circumvent the IE bug.
Example div:
<!-- Fix for IE bug (One text input and submit, disables submit on pressing "Enter") -->
<div style="display:none">
<input type="text" name="hiddenText"/>
</div>
There is a good write up of this problem here, and a nice jquery based solution:
http://www.thefutureoftheweb.com/blog/submit-a-form-in-ie-with-enter
// Use the following Javascript in your HTML view
// put it somewhere between <head> and </head>
<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript"><!--
function KeyDownHandler(btn)
{
if (event.keyCode == 13)
{
event.returnValue=false;
event.cancel = true;
btn.click();
}
}
// -->
</script>
// Put this in your TextBox(es) aka inside <asp:textbox ... >
onkeydown="KeyDownHandler(ButtonID)"
When using display:none
, IE won't see the button and therefore won't be able to use it to submit the form. Instead, you could use z-index
and absolute positioning to hide it under another element, e.g. with the style:
position:absolute; bottom: -20px; left: -20px; z-index: -1;
Now it'll still be there, usable by IE, but hidden beneath another element.
Hide the button - not using display:none, but with the following styles:
position: absolute; /* no longer takes up layout space */
visibility: hidden; /* no longer clickable / visible */
If you do this, you won't need to add any other elements or hidden inputs.
This is due to a peculiarity in IE for single text field inputs.
A simple solution is to stop the page having a single text field by adding another hidden one.
<input type="text" name="hidden" style="visibility:hidden;display:none;" />
see..
http://www.4guysfromrolla.com/articles/060805-1.aspx
Does it use a GET instead of a POST? Is the URL too long? I've seen that...
Basically, a form needs either a button, input type="submit" or an input type="image" to enable the builtin behaviour to submit a form on enter. You shouldn't need a javascript to submit it.