[RETURN] submits form?

[Thomas Dowling]

-----Original Message-----
From: Ernest Perez <perez at opac.osl.state.or.us>
To: Multiple recipients of list <web4lib at library.berkeley.edu>
Date: Friday, January 16, 1998 8:56 PM
Subject: [RETURN] submits form?


>> Is there a method to have the cursor automatically appear in a form box
when a page is loaded?
>> I would like to modify the search pages on our catalog (DRA Web) to
minimize user 'mousing'.
>
>This was a recent question that got some good, quick, answers.  :-)
>
>I'm wondering about another of those behaviors/configs I've SEEN but
>haven't the foggiest about how to do it.  Seem like some Forms will do
>the SUBMIT action when you either click the button or if you press
>[RETURN].  Others won't transmit, until you click SUBMIT.

Netscape's behavior (all versions that I can remember) is: if there is only
one text box--<INPUT>'s of types text or password, and <TEXTAREA>'s--the
Enter key submits the form.

MSIE4's behavior is: if there is only one submit button--<INPUT>'s of type
submit or image--the Enter key submits the form.

Opera and (as I recall) earlier versions of MSIE mimic Netscape's behavior.

>
>How do you do this? Seems to me that it's not tied to the browser, since
>I can do it on some sites, and not on others.  I'd appreciate collective
>wisdom on this....
>

Dunno that it counts as wisdom.  But it does have to do with the interaction
between the contents of the form and the browser.  Barring some JavaScript
trick I don't know or HTML 4's hotkeys, there isn't much you can do about it
aside from revising your forms to have one text input and one submit button.


Thomas Dowling
OhioLINK - Ohio Library and Information Network
tdowling at ohiolink.edu