How to trigger another button when I press enter key inside my form

Question

I have a search bar where if I type anything it processes the answer or the output in another Modal. and then, if I click [search] button, then the modal triggers. Now I want that if I press enter inside the box, it will trigger the button.

 <form class="form-inline" >
        <input class="form-control mr-sm-1" onkeyup="SearchFunction()" id="searchinputfeild" 
type="search" placeholder="" aria-label="Search">

        <a class="btn btn-outline-success my-2 my-sm-0" id="searchbutton" data-toggle="modal" data- 
target="#resultsModal">Search</a>
      </form>

I am very very weak at javascript. please give me suggestions on how can I make it possible.

Answer 1

<form class="form-inline" id="myForm">
        <input class="form-control mr-sm-1" id="searchinputfeild" 
type="search" placeholder="" aria-label="Search">

        <a class="btn btn-outline-success my-2 my-sm-0" id="searchbutton" data-toggle="modal" data- 
target="#resultsModal">Search</a>
      </form>

<script type="text/javascript">
    var form = document.getElementById("myForm");
    function handleForm(event) { event.preventDefault(); } 
    form.addEventListener('submit', submit);

    function submit(event) {
        event.preventDefault()
        console.log('code here')
    }
</script>

Answer 2

Hi, you can do this by simple JavaScript Code:

Your HTML (some changes):

<form class="form-inline" >
    <input class="form-control mr-sm-1" id="searchinputfeild" type="search" placeholder="" aria-label="Search">

    <button class="btn btn-outline-success my-2 my-sm-0" id="searchbutton" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#resultsModal">Search</button>
</form>

Don't use < a > tag, instead use button.

Now Finally Place following JavaScript code below in your body (or anywhere):

<script>
 var input = document.getElementById("searchinputfeild");
 input.addEventListener("keyup", function (event) {
  if (event.keyCode === 13) {
   event.preventDefault();
   document.getElementById("searchbutton").click();
   }
 });
</script>

YOU ARE DONE.

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It Will work smoothly

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If you wanna Test, Check it below by running alert test snippet:

 var input = document.getElementById("searchinputfeild"); input.addEventListener("keyup", function (event) { if (event.keyCode === 13) { event.preventDefault(); document.getElementById("searchbutton").click(); } });

 <form class="form-inline" > <input class="form-control mr-sm-1" id="searchinputfeild" type="search" placeholder="" aria-label="Search"> <button onclick="javascript:alert('Hey Congrats. I am working.')" class="btn btn-outline-success my-2 my-sm-0" id="searchbutton" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#resultsModal">Search</button> </form>