button in form

[Peter]

I have the following code in a form:

<input type="button" value="Search for this City"
onClick="CreateDate()">

If I click the button is runs the javascript correctly but if I press
enter it doesn't run correctly. Is there something I can put in the
form so if the user presses return or clicks the button that it runs
the javascript CreateDate() ?

Thanks,
Pete

[Randy Webb]

Peter said the following on 1/18/2008 4:59 AM:

I have the following code in a form:

<input type="button" value="Search for this City"
onClick="CreateDate()">

If I click the button is runs the javascript correctly but if I press
enter it doesn't run correctly.

That is because you didn't click it. And that is what onclick is, when
you click it.

Is there something I can put in the form so if the user presses
return or clicks the button that it runs the javascript CreateDate() ?

If the button has focus, IE fires the onclick if I press the Enter key.

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[Peter]

I've been searching the NET for how I need to give the OnClick focus
but everything refers to javascript and the forms outside js. Its
weird I'm not sure what its executing when I press Enter. It opens a
new window and it runs part of the commands in my js then gives an
error because it needs more info which is executed when the button is
clicked on. If it was me I'd just click the button but I can't
control the end user pressing the Enter key then complaining.

Pete

[Steve Swift]

Randy Webb wrote:

>Is there something I can put in the form so if the user presses return
or clicks the button that it runs the javascript CreateDate() ?

If the button has focus, IE fires the onclick if I press the Enter key.

I had the opposite problem. When I clicked in an input field in my form,
most browsers set the first button in the form to be the default action,
and it gets submitted along with the rest of the form when you press Enter.
Since the first button in my form is a "Delete" button I didn't want it
getting submitted by default.

The answer in this case was to add an invisible button as the first one
in my form, and have my CGI script ignore it.

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[Randy Webb]

Steve Swift said the following on 1/18/2008 7:14 AM:

Randy Webb wrote:

>>Is there something I can put in the form so if the user presses
return or clicks the button that it runs the javascript CreateDate() ?

If the button has focus, IE fires the onclick if I press the Enter key.

I had the opposite problem. When I clicked in an input field in my form,
most browsers set the first button in the form to be the default action,
and it gets submitted along with the rest of the form when you press Enter.
Since the first button in my form is a "Delete" button I didn't want it
getting submitted by default.

With a <buttonor <input type="button"The simplest solution for
<button(as idiotic as it sounds) is to make it <button type="button">.
The Enter key is notorious for submitting a form :)

The answer in this case was to add an invisible button as the first one
in my form, and have my CGI script ignore it.

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Randy
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[Anjoe13]

I'm really curious with this problem you met. Would you show more
scripts including HTML & JavaScript or the link of these? Then, we
can see what was going.

from http://njoscript.blogspot.com/

[Randy Webb]

Anjoe13 said the following on 1/19/2008 5:15 AM:

I'm really curious with this problem you met.

What problem? This isn't Google Groups, it is Usenet. Quote what you are
replying to so it is easier to know what you are talking about.

Would you show more scripts including HTML & JavaScript or the link of these?
Then, we can see what was going.
from http://njoscript.blogspot.com/

Not sure I would trust a site that can't fix the script errors on its
own page.

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