move focus... is it correct ?

[aneuryzma]

Hello,

i would like to know if this is the correct way to move the focus from a field to a button in order to avoid refreshing the page when the enter key is pressed. (It works on Safari.. but I've just realized it doesn't work on Firefox and IE.

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<form name="password1" onsubmit="javascript:submitentry()">
   <input type="text" name="password2" size="15" onkeydown="if (window.event.keyCode==13) javascript:document.getElementById('submitbutton').focus()"><br>
    <input type="button"  class="normaltexte" value="Submit" id="submitbutton" onClick="submitentry()">
</form>

thanks

[rangana]

IE and Other browser's detecting of keystrokes vary. IE is picky.

If you want to move the focus when the "enter" key is press, you can do it like this:

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<input type="text" name="password2" size="15" onkeydown="var e = event || window.event; key = e.which?e.which:e.keyCode; if (key==13) document.getElementById('submitbutton').focus();">


If you don't want your form to submit when the enter key is pressed, you can actually do it like this:

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<input type="text" name="password2" size="15" onkeydown="var e = event || window.event; key = e.which?e.which:e.keyCode; if (key==13) {return false;}">


Hope that makes sense.

[aneuryzma]

thanks!!

[Suffer]

thanks for info rangana.