Question

I’ve got a web form textbox with text mode set to multiple. Recently a feature stopped working and I can’t figure out what happenned. When a user hit the [Return] key two consecutive times, the webform would trigger a submit button event via a client side javascript. Like this:

function postPage() {       
    var inputString = document.getElementById("Search1_AccordionPane2_content_txtSearchText").value;

    if (inputString.match(/(\r\n){2,}/)) {
        document.getElementById("Search1_AccordionPane2_content_txtSearchText").click();
    }
}

The code hasn’t changed, our users use IE8 on W7 and I suspect that this stopped working since going W7 or IE8. Also the browser settings are restricted by the group policy that I don’t control. Any ideas where to start debugging this?

Thank you,

Risho

Answer 1

try making the \r optional with a following ? so: /(\r?\n){2,}/, Just in case IE8 uses a single \n instead of \r\n as a line terminator