Don't submit form on Enter button

[MichaelK]

Who knows how to prevent submitting a form on the press Enter button before
all fields on the form are filled up.
People just enter the first field hit Enter and it submits the form and
doing validation,
of course flushing with the bunch of messages because rest of the fields are
empty.
I remember I had some pages where wrote the code to go on the next field
when pressed the Enter button (Tab like), because it didn't go anywhere at
all.
Tested it on a few machines, same result.

Thanks,
Michael

[Evertjan.]

Anthony Jones wrote on 13 jul 2007 in
microsoft.publi c.inetserver.as p.general:

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>Anthony Jones wrote:

>
Ok I accept where single handed data entry is required (we're
talking pure numerical info here) then the abiility to use the
numeric pads enter key to move to the next field is sensible. Is
that a general or a specific case?

In my experience, it's been the general case. Most of my applications
involve numeric entry and, if I forget to capture and redefine the
Enter keystroke, I hear about it. Of course, I don't forget anymore,
because

I've

>got a js library file that I include in every form I create.

Interesting. OTH I have had users go on at me because I failed to
supply a default action which is initiated by the enter button and
that's not just in Web apps. I guess it just goes to show that even
with a long career you can't generalise on your own experience. I'll
try to remember that in future.

Using the <tabfor repeated numeric entry works terrible on a standard
keyboard with numberpad, as the <tabis far away and even some times the
<caps locis hit, when using different makes of keyboards.

The numeric pad <enterkey is nice at hand, leaving the left hand free for
other duties like pointing at a paper source.
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[Adrienne Boswell]

Gazing into my crystal ball I observed "Anthony Jones"
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The old 3270 terminals
would again use tab to move between the fields and enter to submit the
page. It is this standard that Windows adopted and MS published in
design guidelines. It has become the industry accepted standard.

I know I am _that_ old. ;)

I worked with 3270's and a DecWriter. [For those too young to know, a
decwriter was a highspeed printer with a large keyboard used for printing
checks and reports.] Our Decwriter's name was Penelope, and for some
reason, when a man sat down to do something, the machine would suddenly
start beeping and spitting out paper. Every time we called out Digital
to service it, of course, they sent a female tech and she would go away
because nothing was wrong. The machine was retired before we ever found
the cause.

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[Anthony Jones]

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Gazing into my crystal ball I observed "Anthony Jones"
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The old 3270 terminals
would again use tab to move between the fields and enter to submit the
page. It is this standard that Windows adopted and MS published in
design guidelines. It has become the industry accepted standard.

I know I am _that_ old. ;)

I worked with 3270's and a DecWriter. [For those too young to know, a
decwriter was a highspeed printer with a large keyboard used for printing
checks and reports.] Our Decwriter's name was Penelope, and for some
reason, when a man sat down to do something, the machine would suddenly
start beeping and spitting out paper. Every time we called out Digital
to service it, of course, they sent a female tech and she would go away
because nothing was wrong. The machine was retired before we ever found
the cause.

LOL!.

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[Dave Anderson]

"Anthony Jones" wrote:

The old 3270 terminals would again use tab to move between the
fields and enter to submit the page. It is this standard that
Windows adopted and MS published in design guidelines. It has
become the industry accepted standard.

That's not credible. I have worked on several 3270 systems, none of which
used [Enter] to submit a page. In fact, I saw no consistency beyond the
tendency to use "one of the PF-keys" to submit.

It is fantasy to suggest [Enter] was the standard on 3270 systems.

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[Anthony Jones]

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"Anthony Jones" wrote:

The old 3270 terminals would again use tab to move between the
fields and enter to submit the page. It is this standard that
Windows adopted and MS published in design guidelines. It has
become the industry accepted standard.

That's not credible. I have worked on several 3270 systems, none of which
used [Enter] to submit a page. In fact, I saw no consistency beyond the
tendency to use "one of the PF-keys" to submit.

It is fantasy to suggest [Enter] was the standard on 3270 systems.

Mate, this party finished a couple of days ago; there's only the clearing up
of the paper plates and cups to do.

I think we've established already that what various applications actually
did down through history actually varied more than I had though.

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