trigger HTML button by enter ENTER key

[Matt]

<input type="button" onClick="doSome thing()">

When the user click HTML button, it will launch doSomething(). But I
want the user enter ENTER key, it will have same effect.

Please advise. Thanks!

[Michael Winter]

Re: trigger HTML button by enter ENTER key

On 6 Mar 2004 08:12:38 -0800, Matt <jrefactors@hot mail.com> wrote:
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> <input type="button" onClick="doSome thing()">
>
> When the user click HTML button, it will launch doSomething(). But I
> want the user enter ENTER key, it will have same effect.[/color]

If the button has focus, pressing enter will invoke an onclick event. If
some other control (in a form) has focus, the form's submit button will
receive the event.

As I see it, if you do want to invoke an event on an arbitrary control,
you'll have to handle the onkeydown event on *every* control that might be
active when Enter is pressed and fire the event yourself. That's a lot of
work.

Mike

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