How to Click Submit Button on keypress?

[rlafleur]

Can anyone explain how I can 'click' a cfform ty[pe='submit' button by using the keyboard? I get focus but I have to click the button, pressing the enter key does nothing.

[michin11]

Anyone? I am having the same issue..

[Bartjan Meier]

Hi, I had the same problem and found a solution. In the cfinput field I just
check with actionscript if the ENTER key is pressed. Of course this will only
work in single line text-input fields. <cfinput type='text' name='Name'
label='Name' onKeyDown='if(Key.isDown(Key.ENTER)) {submitForm()}'> I never
knew that onKeyDown would work, but with IE6 it works fine. Please confirm if
it works for you!

[yitian]

Hi, I've tried your method and it works, but I still got some issues... I'm
using your code on a login screen. The screen has some validation on blank
username and password. If I hit enter without username/password, an alert box
will show up. Everything's fine except when I hit enter more than once, the
screen will seem to hang as the alert box won't go away no matter how many
times I clicked on 'OK'. Is it only me that's having the problem?

[mooresm]

I think this is a major shortcoming of Flash forms if the user must always use
a mouse click to submit a form. I've tried the method here, which works pretty
well, except that means putting it in every text field on the screen. And as
I've found, this causes the Submit field to not be included in the form fields
passed, so if you're performing code based on the value of the Submit field
(where I have a tabbed form with three of them), that code will not work.

[Bartjan Meier]

We only used it on a form that has only 1 textfield to input, so there we have
no problem. I tested the validation issue, and what's happening is that the
form 'remembers' the last keypress and immediately submits the form again. You
can always ignore the validation with username.enabled=false; before the
submitForm(); command (if for exampleusername is required). But this will
require to validate the form after it's been send. We use this when we have
different forms within one form (each tab has a different role). Depending on
the tab we disable validation for the fields of the other tabs. But I'm afraid
this will not help in your case...