Question

My issue is that when I click my button, it will work properly, but if I use the enter button, it will attempt to submit the form and appends a ?var=x to the URL.

My two inputs:

    <input type="text" name="users" onkeydown="if (event.keyCode == 13) document.getElementById('submitbtn').click()">
    <input type="button" name="submitbtn" onclick="showUser(users.value)">

You may view my source for the rest. If you put in 1 or 2 and click the button, you will get results, but if you hit enter, it will not give you results and changes the URL as I said.

http://crystalarcade.com/shoutbox

Answer 1

you are using document.getElementById so give your button an id

like this

<input type="text" name="users" onkeydown="if (event.keyCode == 13) document.getElementById('submitbtn').click()">
<input type="button" id="submitbtn" name="submitbtn" onclick="showUser(users.value)">

and this will work for you