Form and commandButton

[Johan Rignas]

Hi. I have a Form containing some inputTexts and one commandButton. Is there any simple way to make the "Enter"-key make the commandButton to trigger? It feels very very inefficient to have a "onkeydown" listeners for every textfield that listens to every key press.... Any ideas?

[Tim Holloway]

Yes, but there's a catch. In most web browsers, when you have a single submit button, pressing "Enter" will submit the form.

However, the old offender: Internet Explorer, won't do that. So you have to put in browser-specific hacks. They're just gnarly enough that I don't remember the details, but you can Google for them. It's an HTML problem, not a JSF problem, so non-JSF apps have the save troubles.

[Johan Rignas]

I´m not convinced. I´m using Chrome and this dose not trigger the button when I press "Enter" in selected textField:

<h:form>
            <h:inputText id="TxtId" />

            <h:commandButton value="click"
                             type="submit"
                             action="#{controllBean.buttonClicked}"/>
</h:form>

I´m missing something? Should this work?

[Tim Holloway]

Maybe Chrome is "IE Compatible"???

[Johan Rignas]

Probably. But when trying the same code with firefox the "Enter"-key still dose not trigger the "action"....
My only guess is that I´m missing something...

[Tim Holloway]

If the page is literally as you displayed it, it's probably because you have no actual input (no "value=" reference on the inputText element).