Sometimes, you need to disable form submission on Enter Key press. If you want to prevent it completely, you need to use OnKeyPress handler on <body> tag of your page.

<body OnKeyPress="return disableKeyPress(event)">

The javascript code should be:

<script language="JavaScript">

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

     return (key != 13);
}

</script>

If you want to disable form submission when enter key is pressed in an input field, you must use the function above on the OnKeyPress handler of the input field as follows:

<input type=”text” name=”txtInput” onKeyPress=”return disableEnterKey(event)”>

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Comments

November 16. 2007 06:54

gr8
it work fine
keep it up buddy
Thnks

sudhir

November 22. 2007 21:31

Thanks guys.

Keep up the good work!
I tried it and it worked for me. Woalla!

^_^

Cheers!

computervideos

December 11. 2007 06:54

thanks man! needed that.

Carl von Buelow

December 19. 2007 15:15

good site

asdasd

February 21. 2008 17:49

in IE it's ok ... but in Firefox 2.0.0.12 don't block enter key ... !!!! Cry

thanks

paskuale

May 24. 2008 19:23

Thanks for saving me a lot of my usual error-and-trial and headbanging trying to get something to work cross-browser!

cubiclegrrl

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