You'll probably have to "cancel" the original "enter" event.
Or, you could fogogging-ogle it. =) Re, the foggogerler: This can be achieved by submitting the form using the onClick event handler instead of onSubmit event handler. It is necessary to return false on event handler onSubmit to prevent submit on hitting ENTER key. Sample code: <form name="form1" onSubmit="return false"> I hope mike is making alot of money off his traffic... ;-) On 6/11/07, Phillip M. Vector wrote: > I have a form that I'm using with AJAX calls to the DB. > > I'd like to use Enter to call the AJAX function. However, the form is > trying to submit itself when I press enter. > > Is there a way of disableing enter from submitting a form on a page? Or > is there a workaround that someone can think of? I've tried redirecting > the form back to the form itself, but the problem becomes that I have a > onkeydown already defined and that seems to be taking presidence on the > calls. So it goes to the keydown and doesn't go to enter.. > > Any ideas? > > <body onload="showmessages()"> > <cfoutput> > <form action="#self#Chat.Default" method="Post"> > Message: > <input type="text" id="Message" onenter="entermessage()" > onkeydown="showmessages()" size="40"> > <input type="Hidden" id="Room" value="1"> > </form> > </cfoutput> > <HR> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| ColdFusion MX7 by Adobe® Dyncamically transform webcontent into Adobe PDF with new ColdFusion MX7. Free Trial. http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion?sdid=RVJV Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:280726 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
