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Re: Form submission via enter key?

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From: Paul J. Adam
Date: Nov 6, 2013 7:40AM

The default behavior is to use the ENTER key when focused inside any of the form inputs, this fires the onSubmit event. No reason to change that. What you should not be doing, and a bug I’ve seen before, is allowing an ENTER key event to submit the form when they are NOT focused inside an input.

So ENTER should only work to Submit the form when focused inside one of the form’s inputs.

Paul J. Adam
Accessibility Evangelist
www.deque.com

On Nov 6, 2013, at 12:12 AM, Nathalie Sequeira < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> Thank you all very much for your feedback!
>
> I am quite reassured now that submission via enter key needs to be
> disabled altogether in this case, even where default HTML behaviour
> would allow it.
> Then, the form can only be submitted via the submit button (the exact
> opposite of what the client wants - haha, it's going to be fun selling
> that to them ;D ).
>
> I am also thinking of collapsing the fieldset with instrument checkboxes
> by default (which will also help declutter the form), so one needn't tab
> through all those options to get to the submit button.
>
> Thanks also Detlev for the heads up regarding button states, I will look
> into that too.
>
> Cheers!
> Nathalie
>
> > >