Re: Trap CR or "Enter" possible?

On 22-Mar-2002 Erik Price wrote: > > On Friday, March 22, 2002, at 12:29 PM, Jason Wong wrote: > >>> Side note to the original poster: in the script that is the target of >>> the form you are writing, you may be able to test for the presence of >>> the "submit" variable -- if this value is not present, then the user >>> has >>> not clicked the Submit button. I know that the "value" of a submit >>> input is usually just used to label the button in some way (such as >>> value="Click Here for Free Porn!"), but you can actually test for this >>> value if you have given the Submit input a name. I may be wrong about >>> this, though. >> >> Thus if you relied upon testing for the value of the submit button to >> determine whether the form had been submitted (as opposed to being >> viewed for >> the first time) then you're going to get unexpected results. > > Right, but I was trying to come up with a way for the original poster to > test to see if the user had simply hit "enter" or if they had actually > hit the "submit" button (not as a test to see if the form was being > viewed for the first time). IIRC he was having problems determining > whether or not the user had hit "enter" or hit the submit button. > If you use an image for your submit button, then you can test for $submit_x and $submit_y. -- Don Read dread@texas.net -- It is necessary for me to learn from others' mistakes. I will not live long enough to make them all by myself.