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Prevent form submission on Enter key press

September 23, 2022 by Tarik

if(characterCode == 13) { // returning false will prevent the event from bubbling up. return false; } else{ return true; } Ok, so imagine you have the following textbox in a form: <input id=”scriptBox” type=”text” onkeypress=”return runScript(event)” /> In order to run some “user defined” script from this text box when the enter key is … Read more

How can I detect pressing Enter on the keyboard using jQuery?

September 7, 2022 by Tarik

The whole point of jQuery is that you don’t have to worry about browser differences. I am pretty sure you can safely go with enter being 13 in all browsers. So with that in mind, you can do this: $(document).on(‘keypress’,function(e) { if(e.which == 13) { alert(‘You pressed enter!’); } });