Question

I’ve got a form that has no submit button and it would be great if the form is still submitted when the user hits the enter key. I’ve tried adding a hidden submit button, which gives me the desired behavior in Safari, Firefox and Chrome, but the form is still not submitted in IE. Is there a standard way of doing this?

Answer 1

Tested/cross-browser:

function submitOnEnter(e) {
    var theEvent = e || window.event;
    if(theEvent.keyCode == 13) {
        this.submit;
    }
    return true;
}
document.getElementById("myForm").onkeypress = function(e) { return submitOnEnter(e); }

<form id="myForm">
<input type="text"/>
...
</form>

If there is no submit button, the form will degrade miserably if javascript is not available!