[Kss-devel] how to prevent forms from submitting when I hit Enter?

[Godefroid Chapelle]

Brandon Craig Rhodes wrote:
> In my experiments so far, I have had good luck shutting down
> submit-button actions by saying
> 
> input#my-submit-button:click {
>     evt-click-preventdefault: True;
> }
> 
> so that my own actions can run instead, without the whole page
> reloading.  But my careful deactivation of the submit button, it turns
> out, is useless if the user tries to activate the form by simply
> hitting "Enter" when they are doing typing their input.
> 
> What's the right way, in KSS, to prevent an
> 
>     <input type=text ... /> 
> 
> field from submitting the form that it's inside of when the user hits
> Enter?  The only way I have found so far is to say, in my form itself,
> 
>     <form id="form1" onsubmit="return false;">
>       <input id="input1" type="text" name="text1" />
>     </form>
> 
> But it's embarrassing during presentations, after telling people that
> KSS prevents them from having to write JavaScript, for them to see
> that in fact I've had to write JavaScript in every form that I've
> created in my application. ;-) What's the correct solution?
> 

I suspect you found one of the places where KSS is still lacking the 
right code.

Can you tell us in which browsers you experience the problem ?

This way we can explore it and try to fix the stuff asap.

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