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Submitting data from textarea by hitting “Enter”.

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I’ve got a textarea and a submit button:

<textarea id="chat"></textarea> <input type="submit" value="Submit" onclick="send_msg();"> 

The value of the of the texarea is submitted when Enter is hit:

    textarea.onkeyup = function(e) {         alert(e.keyCode);         e = e || window.event;         if (e.keyCode === 13) {             send_msg();         }         return true;     } 

Problem is to make the textarea submit its value prior to letting the cursor to jump to the next line. How’s it possible to do that?

Answer 1

The trick is to stop the browser from executing the default behaviour on key down and key up. To do that, simply return false in your onkeypress/onkeyrelease handlers when you detect keycode 13.