102539 - Ctrl-Enter to submit forms in TEXTAREA

Status: NEW

(Core :: Layout: Form Controls, enhancement)

Description

[Ashley Bischoff (blog at handcoding.com)]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.4+)
Gecko/20010926
BuildID:    2001092603

Related to bug 22526 and as a parallel to bug 56696, it would be convenient if
Ctrl-Enter could submit a form in a TEXTAREA.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Place cursor in "Additional Comments" area
2. Enter some text
3. Hit Ctrl-Enter

Actual Results:  No submit

Expected Results:  Form is submitted.

As mentioned in bug 20336 and bug 56696, there'd likely need to be a pref for
this, such as:

------- Additional Comments From Seth Spitzer 2001-09-30 23:19 -------
(?)  Are you sure you are ready to send this message?
     [ ] Do not show me this dialog box again.
   
        [Send]   [Cancel]

Comment 1

[Ashley Bischoff (blog at handcoding.com)]

Adding depends-on: bug 50255, bug 99853.

Comment 2

[TucsonTester3]

Attachment: Testcase

Comment 3

[John Keiser (jkeiser)]

*** Bug 177949 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[Jesse Ruderman]

I disagree with this bug.  

* It is easy to hit Ctrl+Enter accidentally when trying to press Enter.  See bug
20336 (where ctrl+enter sends mail message) and bug 177618 (where ctrl+enter
prepends "www" and appends "com" to any url).

* Submitting a form with a textarea too early is often more dangerous than
sending an e-mail too early.  Examples of where submitting a form with a
textarea early is dangerous are bugzilla, slashdot, and some stores.

Comment 5

[Timwi]

I strongly disagree with comment 4 - by that argument we should also remove the ability to submit a form by pressing Enter in a (single-line) textbox or on a checkbox or radio button. Clearly Ctrl+Enter is harder to press accidentally than just Enter.

Comment 6

[Jesse Ruderman]

> Clearly Ctrl+Enter is harder to press accidentally than just Enter.

No, that's not clearly true.  It's easier to press Ctrl+Enter accidentally *while intentionally pressing Enter* than it is to hit Enter accidentally.  And people do press Enter intentionally in textareas.