Disabling enter key for selected submit buttons within a form

Question

i have a page that contains several submit buttons however i only want one of them to be activated by the enter key

 echo "<form method=\"post\" action=\"fish.php\">\n";

 echo "<tr><td>North Pot</td><td><input type=\"text\" name=\"northpot\"><input type=\"submit\" name=\"north_all\" value=\"All\"></td>\n";

 echo "<tr><td>South Pot</td><td><input type=\"text\" name=\"southpot\"><input type=\"submit\" name=\"south_all\" value=\"All\"></td>\n";

  echo "<tr><td><input type=\"submit\" name=\"submit4\" value=\"Place\"><input type=\"submit\" name=\"clear\" value=\"Clear\"></td>\n";
 echo "<td colspan=\"2\" align=\"center\"></td></tr>\n";

 echo "</form>";

The button i want to be actived by the return key is submit4

i can disable the enter key for all the submit buttons but i'm struggling to do this selectively

Answer 1

You can capture and cancel the enter keypress on those fields like this:

$('.noEnterSubmit').keypress(function(e){
    if ( e.which == 13 ) return false;
    //or...
    if ( e.which == 13 ) e.preventDefault();
 });

Then on your inputs with type as submit just give them a class="noEnterSubmit" :)

In jQuery 1.4.3 you can shorten it to this:

$('.noEnterSubmit').bind('keypress', false);

Answer 2

This is not possible in plain HTML. How ever you may do it in Javascript :

function keyPressed(e)
{
     var key;      
     if(window.event)
          key = window.event.keyCode; //IE
     else
          key = e.which; //firefox      

     return (key != 13);
}

And then in your page, either add

<body onKeyPress="return keyPressed(event)">

if you want to disable enter on the hole page, or

<input type=”text” onKeyPress=”return keyPressed(event)”>

if you only want to disable it on a single form (You must then add this to all your inputs).

Disabling enter key for selected submit buttons within a form

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2 answers

solution1
4 ACCPTED 2012-03-22 20:59:58

solution2
2 2012-03-22 20:40:20

Disabling enter key for selected submit buttons within a form

Question

2 answers

solution1 4 ACCPTED 2012-03-22 20:59:58

solution2 2 2012-03-22 20:40:20

solution1
4 ACCPTED 2012-03-22 20:59:58

solution2
2 2012-03-22 20:40:20