Capturing enter button in JSF

Question

Hi ,
I am using JSF with tomahawk in my application.
I have a form with one textfield and one submit button.
I am using tomahawk and javascript to populate a hidden textfield.
My problem is that when the user types in something int eh textfield and presses the "enter" key instead of the submit button, the form doesn't get submitted and is not populating the hidden field.
Because of this when we later hit the submit button, it still has a problem.
What is the work around for this?
Is there away to capture the enter key and submit the form or is there a better way to do this?

Answer 1

Define your form with a on key press event:
<h:form id="yourForm" onkeypress="if (event.keyCode == 13) {javascript:submitForm(); return false;}; return true;">The javascript function is:
function submitForm(){
     if (event.keyCode == 13){
          document.getElementById('yourForm:submitButtonId').click();
          return false;
     return true;
}submitButtonId is the id of the button that needs to be triggered when you press enter key. Hope this should solve your problem.
SirG