Re: Enter must acitvate a button

Hi! De Necker, It is possible if u remove the action associated with the button __ Onclick="function()";__ keep this function in <form name="formname" Onsubmit="function()"> and button should be like this <input type="submit" value="SUBMIT"> Example: ___________________________________________________________________________ _______________ <!DOCTYPE html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <html> <head> <HEAD> <TITLE>IMAC</TITLE> <meta http-equiv="Expires" CONTENT="0"> <meta http-equiv="Cache-Control" CONTENT="no-cache"> <meta http-equiv="Pragma" CONTENT="no-cache"> </HEAD> <SCRIPT language="Javascript"> function check(){ if (document.login.emp_id.value=='' || document.login.emp_id.value=='0') { alert('Please enter your employee number'); document.login.emp_id.focus(); return false; } else if(document.login.emp_pass.value=='') { alert("Please enter the password"); document.login.emp_pass.focus(); return false; } else { document.login.method = "POST"; document.login.action="./authentication.php"; document.login.submit(); return true; } } </script> </head> <body text="arial" background="imacbg1.gif" style="width:100%;overflow-x:hidden;overflow-y:scroll" ONLOAD="document.login.emp_id.focus()"> <font face="arial" > <center> <h1> WELCOME TO IMAC TOOL </h1></center> <center> <img SRC="logo.gif" height=100 width=100></img> <form name="login" onSubmit="return check()"> <table border="0" width="100%"> <center> <tr><td width="50%" align="right"><b><font size="2" face="Arial">Employee No&nbsp;</font></b></td><td width="5%"></td><td width="50%"><input type="text" size="10" name="emp_id" maxlength="10" value=""></td></tr> <tr><td width="50%" align="right"><b><font size="2" face="Arial">Password&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</font></b>< /td><td width="5%"></td><td width="50%" ><input type="password" size="10" name="emp_pass" maxlength="10" value=""></td></tr> <tr> <td width="50%" align="right"> <p align="left"> </td> <td width="5%"> </td> <td width="50%"> <p align="left"> <input type="submit" Value="LOGIN"></td> </tr> </center> </table> <br/><br/><br/> <b><font size="3" face="Arial">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Note:- Best viewed in Internet Explorer 5.0.<br> </font></b> </center> </form> </body></html> ___________________________________________________________________________ Hope this helps.. regards -Balaji ----- Original Message ----- From: De Necker Henri <deNeckerH@ford.co.za> To: PHP-General (E-mail) <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Friday, October 12, 2001 5:28 PM Subject: [PHP] Enter must acitvate a button I need help with a button What i what to do is let the user either click on the submit button or just press enter without pressing TAB to get to the button. The user enters a id.no. in a textfield & then must only be able to press enter without pressing a other key or TAB. U will see when one enters data into a text field the first button highlights up at its border. Now i want to press only enter to activate that button. Can someone help me?

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