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JSP / servlet combination doesn’t submit form on Enter if only form element is a submit button

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Unfortunately, you should have at least one focusable input element in the form to get that to work and then only when the input has focus. If you don't have any input elements, then there's no other way to get around this than by letting Javascript to listen on the enter key in the body.

<body onkeypress="if (event.keyCode == 13) document.formname.confirm.click();">

Where formname is the value of the name attribute of the parent <form> element.

Note that I used document.formname.confirm.click() instead of document.formname.submit(), because otherwise IE wouldn't send the name=value pair of the button to the server side.

The only Javascript-free way would be to let the user to tab to the button and then press enter. This all is by the way regardless of the browser used and thus not IE specific.

BalusC 2010-03-04 01:00:45

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