submitting a form by pressing "ENTER"

[laredotornado]

Hi,

I have a very simple form and I would like on Firefox and IE for the
form to submit upon the user pressing enter in the textfield. Right
now, I have

<script type="text/javascript">
function search() {
var search = document.getElementById('Search');
location = "search_response.php?Search=" + escape(search.value);
} // search
</script>
<form name="search" action="javascript:search();" method="get">
<table cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="100%">
<tr><td class="departmentSidebarTitle" style="height:25px;
padding-left:3px; padding-right:3px;" nowrap>Search Store</td></tr>
<tr><td class="departmentSidebar" width="100%" align="left"><input
type="text" name="Search" id="Search" value=""></td></tr>
</table>
</form>

(this is all within a table cell), but it is not working. However,
there are no JS errors. Any ideas how I can tweak the above to make it
work?

Thanks, -

 

[web.dev]

Hi,

I have a very simple form and I would like on Firefox and IE for the
form to submit upon the user pressing enter in the textfield.

By default, all web forms will submit the form when a user presses
"Enter". There must be something else that's causing your form not to
behave correctly.

<form name="search" action="javascript:search();" method="get">

You are using the javascript pseudo protocol, which doesn't even belong
in the action attribute to begin with. Perhaps you meant the
following:

<script type="text/javascript">
function search() {
var search = document.getElementById('Search');
location = "search_response.php?Search=" + escape(search.value);
} // search
</script>

In your javascript, this is entirely unecessary. Your form uses the
GET method, therefore, your values will already be sent in the manner
that you're trying to achieve in your script.