Submit a Form in IE with Enter key.

Hi all,
I have a Form with a Get attribute, a textfield and a search
(submit) button.
When I press the Enter key in my keyboard, the form is not
submited in I.E. (i'm using IE 7).
When I click the button with the mouse, it works.
In Firefox, all (keyboard and mouse) works.
How can we workaround this issue?
Thanks

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