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Re: Search button
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lugnet.admin.general
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Date:
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Fri, 17 Mar 2000 16:32:49 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Mark Koesel writes:
> > The problem is that the 'Enter' key works correctly in MSIE pages containing
> > a single, simple edit-box HTML form, but not in pages containing multiple
> > HTML forms, even if those forms are all simply edit boxes. Thus, MSIE
> > actually sometimes requires an HTML form to have an actual Submit button.
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> I understand your frustration, but this isn't strictly true. You can attach
> a onkeypress event to the search boxes in IE4 and later (not easily doable
> in NS4, since they are not DOM compliant yet), which and submit the form for
> you.
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> Something like (and this is off the top of my head so it may need syntax
> corrections):
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> <input type="text" onkeypress="this.form.submit();">
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> I'm not positive what effect (if any) this will have on Netscape Browsers.
> You may need to execute it conditionally, depending on the browser type.
Yah, M$ has nonstandard bogo-extensions for just about anything. Probably
why they put in the bug in the first place... :-/
--Todd
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Message has 1 Reply:
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| Heh heh, well both browsers are guilty of that stuff. I'll bet they don't even test these cases thoroughly. Most people are still putting submit buttons on their forms; heck some people still blindly put the reset button on their forms. Anyway, I (...) (25 years ago, 17-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| "Todd Lehman" <lehman@javanet.com> wrote in message news:FrJ8B3.wu@lugnet.com... (...) containing (...) HTML (...) I understand your frustration, but this isn't strictly true. You can attach a onkeypress event to the search boxes in IE4 and later (...) (25 years ago, 17-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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