Question

The problem is only happening in Internet Explorer. In any other browser I can submit the form by hitting enter on my keyboard, in IE8 I have to actually click the button.

I searched around for fixes for a while and found a few things but it’s still not working. The javascript I’m using should be looking for keycode 13, which is enter, but when I hit enter the field clears itself without submitting the form and the keycode is not triggered. The keycode thing only returns results for letters and not for shift/enter.

Here’s the HTML my current solution:

    <form action="chatscreen.php" name="loginform" method="post"> 
        <p>Please enter your name to continue:</p> 
        <label for="name">Name:</label> 
          <input type="text" name="name" id="name" onkeyup="whichButton("loginform","enter")"/> 
        <button type="submit" name="enter" id="enter" value="Enter">Button</button>
    </form> 

And here’s the javascript I tried to implement as a fix:

 <script type="text/javascript">
    function whichButton(formname,elementname) {
    alert("got a key = " + event.keyCode);
    if (event.keyCode === 13) {
    var followingInput = document.getElementById(elementname);
    document.formname.elementname.click();
    }
    }
 </script>

Answer 1

<script type="text/javascript">
    function whichButton(formname,elementname) {
       var keyID = (window.event) ? event.keyCode : keyEvent.keyCode;
       if (keyID === 13) {
          var followingInput = document.getElementById(elementname);
          document.formname.elementname.click();
       }
    }
 </script>