<body>
<form>
<label>enter number here: </label>
<input type="number" id="text"/>
<button type="button" id="btn" onclick="calc()">read</button>
</form>
<script>
document.getElementById("text").addEventListener("keyup", function(event) {
if (event.keyCode === 13) {
event.preventDefault();
document.getElementById("btn").click();
}
});
</script>
<br>
<label id = "calculated"></label>
<script>
function calc() {
let inputValue = document.getElementById("text").value;
document.getElementById('calculated').innerHTML = 'your number: ' + inputValue;
}
</script>
</body>
I have a very simple HTML file with minimal javascript included. When I click the button, it works perfectly. But when I hit the ENTER on the keyboard to simulate the button click, it will also run through the code, but then an error happens at the end.
On Firefox and Chrome, it'll return an error "Not Found". On w3schools, it'll return "The file you asked for does not exist". And on stackoverflow, it'll just disappear.
What am I missing? Where is the error? What's the trick to making the ENTER key act just like the mouse click?
HTML form has onsubmit attribute on them. onsubmit handles the enter functionality. You have to set the type="submit" on the button, also you need to set the onsubmit on form passing the event to your function so that you can prevent the default action of the form ( that is to send the request to backend ) by doing e.preventDefault.
<body>
<form onsubmit="calc(event)">
<label>enter number here: </label>
<input type="number" id="text"/>
<button type="submit">read</button>
</form>
<br>
<label id = "calculated"></label>
<script>
function calc(e) {
// Will stop the form from sending the request to backend
e.preventDefault()
let inputValue = document.getElementById("text").value;
document.getElementById('calculated').innerHTML = 'your number: ' + inputValue;
}
</script>
</body>
If you want to just prevent ENTER from doing anything including running the code....
The following code (yours with a couple more lines... will prevent Enter from doing anything:
<body>
<form onsubmit="return mySubmitFunction(event)">
<label>enter number here: </label>
<input type="number" id="text"/>
<button type="button" id="btn" onclick="calc()">read</button>
</form>
<script>
document.getElementById("text").addEventListener("keyup", function(event) {
if (event.keyCode === 13) {
event.preventDefault();
return false;
//document.getElementById("btn").click();
}
});
</script>
<br>
<label id = "calculated"></label>
<script>
function mySubmitFunction(e) {
e.preventDefault();
return false;
}
function calc() {
let inputValue = document.getElementById("text").value;
document.getElementById('calculated').innerHTML = 'your number: ' + inputValue;
}
</script>
Why was this happening? since the form element itself has a submit and the enter key is a key pressed which also does a form submit.... so you need to prevent the form from submitting... mySubmitFunction() <- this prevents the form from submitting ... and a change to your keyup event listener - if you do not want enter to even create the click you change this:
event.preventDefault();
document.getElementById("btn").click();
to this :
event.preventDefault();
return false;
//document.getElementById("btn").click();
As I have already did in the code example. or leave it like you had(the event listener keyup) and the Enter key will only act as a click.
how can i,m control send form with javaScript
pay attention : i,m not want send form or stop for send form but i,m want controll allow or notAllow for sendForm
let idForm='formPasswordForget';
let form=document.getElementById(idForm);
stopSendForm(form){
console.log('run stopSendForm')
form.addEventListener("click",event=>{
event.preventDefault();
});
}
allowSendForm(form)
{
console.log('run allowSendForm')
// ?? how we delete listener click on function stopSedForm ???
// ?? and how delete event.preventDefault() ???
/*this.form.addEventListener("click",event=>{
return true;
});*/
}
that ?
const myForm = document.getElementById('my-form')
, formDenied = document.getElementById('form-denied')
;
myForm.addEventListener('submit',evt=>
{
if (formDenied.checked)
{
evt.preventDefault()
return
}
// ... possible other code before submit
})
<label><input type="checkbox" id="form-denied"> form denied </label>
<form action="" id="my-form">
<input type="text">
<button type="submit">submit</button>
</form>
You can't exactly delete an event listener that way. What you have to do is wrap your executable function code in an actual function with a name, and then assign it through a reference to addEventListener. This will allow you to use removeEventListener, where you pass in the same conditions as addEventListener on the same element.
let idForm = 'formPasswordForget';
let form = document.getElementById(idForm);
function stopSubmit(evt) {
event.preventDefault();
}
function stopSendForm(form) {
console.log('run stopSendForm');
form.addEventListener("submit", stopSubmit);
}
function allowSendForm(form) {
console.log('run allowSendForm');
form.removeEventListener("submit", stopSubmit);
}
function switchState(evt) {
if (event.target.checked) {
stopSendForm(form);
} else {
allowSendForm(form);
}
}
<form id="formPasswordForget">
<input type="email" value="example#gmail.com"><br>
<input type="checkbox" id="stopSend" onchange="switchState()"><label for="stopSend">Stop the form from sending?</label><br>
<input type="submit">
</form>
How would I go about preventing the page from refreshing when pressing the send button without any data in the fields?
The validation is setup working fine, all fields go red but then the page is immediately refreshed. My knowledge of JS is relatively basic.
In particular I think the processForm() function at the bottom is 'bad'.
HTML
<form id="prospects_form" method="post">
<input id="form_name" tabindex="1" class="boxsize" type="text" name="name" placeholder="Full name*" maxlength="80" value="" />
<input id="form_email" tabindex="2" class="boxsize" type="text" name="email" placeholder="Email*" maxlength="100" value="" />
<input id="form_subject" class="boxsize" type="text" name="subject" placeholder="Subject*" maxlength="50" value="FORM: Row for OUBC" />
<textarea id="form_message" class="boxsize" name="message" placeholder="Message*" tabindex="3" rows="6" cols="5" maxlength="500"></textarea>
<button id="form_send" tabindex="5" class="btn" type="submit" onclick="return processForm()">Send</button>
<div id="form_validation">
<span class="form_captcha_code"></span>
<input id="form_captcha" class="boxsize" type="text" name="form_captcha" placeholder="Enter code" tabindex="4" value="" />
</div>
<div class="clearfix"></div>
</form>
JS
$(document).ready(function() {
// Add active class to inputs
$("#prospects_form .boxsize").focus(function() { $(this).addClass("hasText"); });
$("#form_validation .boxsize").focus(function() { $(this).parent().addClass("hasText"); });
// Remove active class from inputs (if empty)
$("#prospects_form .boxsize").blur(function() { if ( this.value === "") { $(this).removeClass("hasText"); } });
$("#form_validation .boxsize").blur(function() { if ( this.value === "") { $(this).parent().removeClass("hasText"); } });
///////////////////
// START VALIDATION
$("#prospects_form").ready(function() {
// DEFINE GLOBAL VARIABLES
var valName = $('#form_name'),
valEmail = $("#form_email"),
valEmailFormat = /^(([^<>()[\]\\.,;:\s#\"]+(\.[^<>()[\]\\.,;:\s#\"]+)*)|(\".+\"))#((\[[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\])|(([a-zA-Z\-0-9]+\.)+[a-zA-Z]{2,}))$/,
valMsg = $('#form_message'),
valCaptcha = $('#form_captcha'),
valCaptchaCode = $('.form_captcha_code');
// Generate captcha
function randomgen() {
var rannumber = "";
// Iterate through 1 to 9, 4 times
for(ranNum=1; ranNum<=4; ranNum++){ rannumber+=Math.floor(Math.random()*10).toString(); }
// Apply captcha to element
valCaptchaCode.html(rannumber);
}
randomgen();
// CAPTCHA VALIDATION
valCaptcha.blur(function() {
function formCaptcha() {
if ( valCaptcha.val() == valCaptchaCode.html() ) {
// Incorrect
valCaptcha.parent().addClass("invalid");
return false;
} else {
// Correct
valCaptcha.parent().removeClass("invalid");
return true;
}
}
formCaptcha();
});
// Remove invalid class from captcha if typing
valCaptcha.keypress(function() {
valCaptcha.parent().removeClass("invalid");
});
// EMAIL VALIDATION (BLUR)
valEmail.blur(function() {
function formEmail() {
if (!valEmailFormat.test(valEmail.val()) && valEmail.val() !== "" ) {
// Incorrect
valEmail.addClass("invalid");
} else {
// Correct
valEmail.removeClass("invalid");
}
}
formEmail();
});
// Remove invalid class from email if typing
valEmail.keypress(function() {
valEmail.removeClass("invalid");
});
// VALIDATION ON SUBMIT
$('#prospects_form').submit(function() {
console.log('user hit send button');
// EMAIL VALIDATION (SUBMIT)
function formEmailSubmit() {
if (!valEmailFormat.test(valEmail.val())) {
// Incorrect
valEmail.addClass("invalid");
} else {
// Correct
valEmail.removeClass("invalid");
}
}
formEmailSubmit();
// Validate captcha
function formCaptchaSubmit() {
if( valCaptcha.val() === valCaptchaCode.html() ) {
// Captcha is correct
} else {
// Captcha is incorrect
valCaptcha.parent().addClass("invalid");
randomgen();
}
}
formCaptchaSubmit();
// If NAME field is empty
function formNameSubmit() {
if ( valName.val() === "" ) {
// Name is empty
valName.addClass("invalid");
} else {
valName.removeClass("invalid");
}
}
formNameSubmit();
// If MESSAGE field is empty
function formMessageSubmit() {
if ( valMsg.val() === "" ) {
// Name is empty
valMsg.addClass("invalid");
} else {
valMsg.removeClass("invalid");
}
}
formMessageSubmit();
// Submit form (if all good)
function processForm() {
if ( formEmailSubmit() && formCaptchaSubmit() && formNameSubmit() && formMessageSubmit() ) {
$("#prospects_form").attr("action", "/clients/oubc/row-for-oubc-send.php");
$("#form_send").attr("type", "submit");
return true;
} else if( !formEmailSubmit() ) {
valEmail.addClass("invalid");
return false;
} else if ( !formCaptchaSubmit() ) {
valCaptcha.parent().addClass("invalid");
return false;
} else if ( !formNameSubmit() ) {
valName.addClass("invalid");
return false;
} else if ( !formMessageSubmit() ) {
valMsg.addClass("invalid");
return false;
} else {
return false;
}
}
});
});
// END VALIDATION
/////////////////
});
You can prevent the form from submitting with
$("#prospects_form").submit(function(e) {
e.preventDefault();
});
Of course, in the function, you can check for empty fields, and if anything doesn't look right, e.preventDefault() will stop the submit.
Without jQuery:
var form = document.getElementById("myForm");
function handleForm(event) { event.preventDefault(); }
form.addEventListener('submit', handleForm);
Add this onsubmit="return false" code:
<form onsubmit="return false">
That fixed it for me. It will still run the onClick function you specify.
Replace button type to button:
<button type="button">My Cool Button</button>
One great way to prevent reloading the page when submitting using a form is by adding return false with your onsubmit attribute.
<form onsubmit="yourJsFunction();return false">
<input type="text"/>
<input type="submit"/>
</form>
You can use this code for form submission without a page refresh. I have done this in my project.
$(function () {
$('#myFormName').on('submit',function (e) {
$.ajax({
type: 'post',
url: 'myPageName.php',
data: $('#myFormName').serialize(),
success: function () {
alert("Email has been sent!");
}
});
e.preventDefault();
});
});
This problem becomes more complex when you give the user 2 possibilities to submit the form:
by clicking on an ad hoc button
by hitting Enter key
In such a case you will need a function which detects the pressed key in which you will submit the form if Enter key was hit.
And now comes the problem with IE (in any case version 11)
Remark:
This issue does not exist with Chrome nor with FireFox !
When you click the submit button the form is submitted once; fine.
When you hit Enter the form is submitted twice ... and your servlet will be executed twice. If you don't have PRG (post redirect get) architecture serverside the result might be unexpected.
Even though the solution looks trivial, it tooks me many hours to solve this problem, so I hope it might be usefull for other folks.
This solution has been successfully tested, among others, on IE (v 11.0.9600.18426), FF (v 40.03) & Chrome (v 53.02785.143 m 64 bit)
The source code HTML & js are in the snippet. The principle is described there.
Warning:
You can't test it in the snippet because the post action is not
defined and hitting Enter key might interfer with stackoverflow.
If you faced this issue, then just copy/paste js code to your environment and adapt it to your context.
/*
* inForm points to the form
*/
var inForm = document.getElementById('idGetUserFrm');
/*
* IE submits the form twice
* To avoid this the boolean isSumbitted is:
* 1) initialized to false when the form is displayed 4 the first time
* Remark: it is not the same event as "body load"
*/
var isSumbitted = false;
function checkEnter(e) {
if (e && e.keyCode == 13) {
inForm.submit();
/*
* 2) set to true after the form submission was invoked
*/
isSumbitted = true;
}
}
function onSubmit () {
if (isSumbitted) {
/*
* 3) reset to false after the form submission executed
*/
isSumbitted = false;
return false;
}
}
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>
<form id="idGetUserFrm" method="post" action="servletOrSomePhp" onsubmit="return onSubmit()">
First name:<br>
<input type="text" name="firstname" value="Mickey">
<input type="submit" value="Submit">
</form>
</body>
</html>
The best solution is onsubmit call any function whatever you want and return false after it.
onsubmit="xxx_xxx(); return false;"
Most people would prevent the form from submitting by calling the event.preventDefault() function.
Another means is to remove the onclick attribute of the button, and get the code in processForm() out into .submit(function() { as return false; causes the form to not submit. Also, make the formBlaSubmit() functions return Boolean based on validity, for use in processForm();
katsh's answer is the same, just easier to digest.
(By the way, I'm new to stackoverflow, give me guidance please. )
In pure Javascript, use: e.preventDefault()
e.preventDefault() is used in jquery but works in javascript.
document.querySelector(".buttonclick").addEventListener("click",
function(e){
//some code
e.preventDefault();
})
The best way to do so with JS is using preventDefault() function.
Consider the code below for reference:
function loadForm(){
var loginForm = document.querySelector('form'); //Selecting the form
loginForm.addEventListener('submit', login); //looking for submit
}
function login(e){
e.preventDefault(); //to stop form action i.e. submit
}
Personally I like to validate the form on submit and if there are errors, just return false.
$('form').submit(function() {
var error;
if ( !$('input').val() ) {
error = true
}
if (error) {
alert('there are errors')
return false
}
});
http://jsfiddle.net/dfyXY/
$("#buttonID").click(function (e) {
e.preventDefault();
//some logic here
}
If you want to use Pure Javascript then the following snippet will be better than anything else.
Suppose:
HTML:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>Form Without Submiting With Pure JS</title>
<script type="text/javascript">
window.onload = function(){
/**
* Just Make sure to return false so that your request will not go the server script
*/
document.getElementById('simple_form').onsubmit = function(){
// After doing your logic that you want to do
return false
}
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>
<form id="simple_form" method="post">
<!-- Your Inputs will go here -->
<input type="submit" value="Submit Me!!" />
</form>
Hope so it works for You!!
Just use "javascript:" in your action attribute of form if you are not using action.
In my opinion, most answers are trying to solve the problem asked on your question, but I don't think that's the best approach for your scenario.
How would I go about preventing the page from refreshing when pressing the send button without any data in the fields?
A .preventDefault() does indeed not refresh the page. But I think that a simple require on the fields you want populated with data, would solve your problem.
<form id="prospects_form" method="post">
<input id="form_name" tabindex="1" class="boxsize" type="text" name="name" placeholder="Full name*" maxlength="80" value="" required/>
<input id="form_email" tabindex="2" class="boxsize" type="text" name="email" placeholder="Email*" maxlength="100" value="" required/>
<input id="form_subject" class="boxsize" type="text" name="subject" placeholder="Subject*" maxlength="50" value="FORM: Row for OUBC" required/>
<textarea id="form_message" class="boxsize" name="message" placeholder="Message*" tabindex="3" rows="6" cols="5" maxlength="500"></textarea>
</form>
Notice the require tag added at the end of each input. The result will be the same: not refreshing the page without any data in the fields.
<form onsubmit="myFunction(event)">
Name : <input type="text"/>
<input class="submit" type="submit">
</form>
<script>
function myFunction(event){
event.preventDefault();
//code here
}
</script>
function ajax_form(selector, obj)
{
var form = document.querySelectorAll(selector);
if(obj)
{
var before = obj.before ? obj.before : function(){return true;};
var $success = obj.success ? obj.success: function(){return true;};
for (var i = 0; i < form.length; i++)
{
var url = form[i].hasAttribute('action') ? form[i].getAttribute('action') : window.location;
var $form = form[i];
form[i].submit = function()
{
var xhttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhttp.open("POST", url, true);
var FD = new FormData($form);
/** prevent submiting twice */
if($form.disable === true)
return this;
$form.disable = true;
if(before() === false)
return;
xhttp.addEventListener('load', function()
{
$form.disable = false;
return $success(JSON.parse(this.response));
});
xhttp.send(FD);
}
}
}
return form;
}
Didn't check how it works. You can also bind(this) so it will work like jquery ajaxForm
use it like:
ajax_form('form',
{
before: function()
{
alert('submiting form');
// if return false form shouldn't be submitted
},
success:function(data)
{
console.log(data)
}
}
)[0].submit();
it return nodes so you can do something like submit i above example
so far from perfection but it suppose to work, you should add error handling or remove disable condition
Sometimes e.preventDefault(); works then developers are happy but sometimes not work then developers are sad then I found solution why sometimes not works
first code sometimes works
$("#prospects_form").submit(function(e) {
e.preventDefault();
});
second option why not work?
This doesn't work because jquery or other javascript library not loading properly you can check it in console that all jquery and javascript files are loaded properly or not.
This solves my problem. I hope this will be helpful for you.
I hope this will be the last answer
$('#the_form').submit(function(e){
e.preventDefault()
alert($(this).serialize())
// var values = $(this).serialize()
// logic....
})
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<form id="the_form">
Label-A <input type="text" name='a'required><br>
Label-B <input type="text" name="b" required><br>
Label-C <input type="password" name="c" required><br>
Label-D <input type="number" name="d" required><br>
<input type="submit" value="Save without refresh">
</form>
You can do this by clearing the state as below. add this to very beginning of the document.ready function.
if ( window.history.replaceState ) {
window.history.replaceState( null, null, window.location.href );
}
HTML:
<form name="prints" method="post" action="">
<input type="text" name="quantity_914" id="quantity_914" value="1" style="width:20px;" onblur="prints_change_quantity(event, this);" onkeyup="return prints_change_quantity(event, this); return false;" />
</form>
Javascript:
function prints_change_quantity(e, element)
{
var pid = element.id.replace('quantity_');
var code = (e.keyCode ? e.keyCode : e.which);
if("blur" == e.type || ("keyup" == e.type && code == 13))
{
e.preventDefault();
console.log(element.value);
}
return false;
}
Cancelling a keydown event won't stop a form from being submitted. You'll need to use keypress or keyup instead.
use the key press event rather using keyup.
<form action="#">
<input type="text" name="txt" onkeypress="handle" />
</form>
<script>
function handle(e){
if(e.keyCode === 13){
alert("Enter was pressed was presses");
}
return false;
}
</script>
If you want to use your existing function and don't want your form to submit you can just use jquery and prevent the form from submitting with your existing function.
Example
$(document).ready(function(){
$("#prints").submit(function (e) {
e.preventDefault(); // this will prevent from submitting the form.
});
});
I added an id of prints to the form alternatively you could use a name selector or some other selector...
Alternatively if you want to be able to submit the form at some point you could just add a jquery handler for keypress on the form and if its the return key cancel it.
$('#prints').keypress(function(e){
if ( e.which == 13 ) e.preventDefault();
});
Example 2
By default keyDown event is triggered when you hit enter for a html form. Whenever you attach an event to onkeyUp attribute the form takes the enter key action and submits the form as it has no effect, however if you explicitly specify onkeyDown event then your return prints_change_quantity(event, this); gets called and hence the form won't get submitted . Change your html code to call the JavaScript function as shown below:
<form name="prints" method="post" action="">
<input type="text" name="quantity_914" id="quantity_914" value="1" style="width:20px;" onblur="prints_change_quantity(event, this);" onkeydown="return prints_change_quantity(event, this); return false;" />
</form>
Hope this helps.
The following form triggers a JavaScript function upon the user pressing enter. However, I'd like the function to be triggered when the user presses a submit button.
<form action="">
<input type="text" name="query" size="20" class="hintTextbox" id='emailinput' placeholder='email'>
<input type="text" name="query" size="20" class="hintTextbox" id='variablesinput' placeholder='variables'>
</form>
$('#variablesinput').keypress(function (e) {
if (e.keyCode == 13) {
var email = $('#emailinput').val();
var variable = $('#variablesinput').val();
alert(email + variable);
}
});
Also, see here: https://jsfiddle.net/chrisguzman/7Tag3/5/
Form elements emit an onsubmit event when the form is submitted (to improve the chances of that happening, actually include a <input type="submit"> button). Replace your current JavaScript with this:
$("form").submit(function() {
var email = $('#emailinput').val();
var variable = $('#variablesinput').val();
alert(email + variable);
});
Preferably, you'd set an id on the specific form you want and use that in the selector.
It is not recommended to use a click handler on a submit button instead of the more reliable and semantically appropriate submit event.
You can use the click() method
// Let's say you have a submit button within the form
// with an id of ="submit_btn"
$("#submit_btn").click(function(){
// do stuff in here
});
make one function for handle both (enter & subnit button), and prevent the 'submit' event. like this:
$('#variablesinput').keypress(function (e) {
if (e.keyCode == 13) {
e.preventDefault();
submiting();
}
});
$( "#f" ).submit(function(e) {
e.preventDefault();
submiting();
});
function submiting() {
// do somthing:
var email = $('#emailinput').val();
var variable = $('#variablesinput').val();
alert(email + variable);
}
https://jsfiddle.net/7Tag3/8/
I guess the question how to disable form submit when 'enter' key is pressed. Well, listen for the 'keypress' event, if the keyCode is === 13 prevent the default behavior of the event and stop it from being propagated.
Please refer this fiddle
Markup:
<form id="form">
<input type="text" class="no-submit-on-return">
<input type="text" class="no-submit-on-return">
<input type="text" class="no-submit-on-return">
<input type="text" class="no-submit-on-return">
<input type="submit">
</form>
Vanilla JavaScript:
var form = document.querySelector('#form');
form.addEventListener('submit', function(e){
e.preventDefault();
e.stopPropagation();
alert('Submit event');
});
var noSubmitOnReturns = document.querySelectorAll('.no-submit-on-return');
[].slice.call(noSubmitOnReturns).forEach(function(noSubmitOnReturn){
noSubmitOnReturn.addEventListener('keypress', function(e){
e.preventDefault();
e.stopPropagation();
alert('Keypress event');
});
});
It is better to keep the default behavior as is for the sake of accessibility.
However, should be required for some elements, please disable the 'enter' key only for those elements. But not on the form submit. User can 'tab' to the 'submit' button and press the 'enter' key. At that time, 'enter' key press needs to be honored.