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October 29, 2015
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Any way to stop a Form from treating pressing the "Enter" key as the same clicking "Submit"?

  • October 29, 2015
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If someone is completing a form and presses the "Enter" key, is there any way to prevent the form from treating this the same as clicking the "Submit" button? Or is that a function of the web browser/web browser configuration? The situation is that there is a form with a text box for people to enter comments - and they are pressing "enter", presumably, to add a line break but this action submits the form so their comment is incomplete.

I'm guessing this isn't something configurable on the form - and my workaround would be to move the comments field up above one or more required fields, but would love to know if there's a better way.

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Best answer by SanfordWhiteman

It's not normal behavior for a Marketo textarea (let alone a browser textarea in general) to interpret "Enter" as "Submit."  Are you using a textarea field, or simply a text field?

On the modern web, letting "Enter" trigger "Submit" in all other kinds of widgets but textareas is the expected action and not something you want to turn off. 

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SanfordWhiteman
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October 29, 2015

It's not normal behavior for a Marketo textarea (let alone a browser textarea in general) to interpret "Enter" as "Submit."  Are you using a textarea field, or simply a text field?

On the modern web, letting "Enter" trigger "Submit" in all other kinds of widgets but textareas is the expected action and not something you want to turn off. 

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    Anonymous
    November 5, 2015

    Hi Sanford - thank you! That was a good question. It's a text field rather than a text area.

    SanfordWhiteman
    SanfordWhiteman
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    November 5, 2015

    Right, in a text field, "Enter" should submit (at at least ​attempt ​to submit).  Otherwise your form doesn't behave like a standard form, violating Least Astonishment.

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