44725 - Can't press enter to submit form

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 22526

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect, P3)

Description

[Blake Ross]

Build ID: 2000070608

At the URL above <http://aolmail.aol.com/>, you can't press enter in either of 
the textfields to submit the form.  I believe this used to work.

Comment 1

[Eric Pollmann]

Marking this a dup of existing bug 22526.  All of the issues here are also
covered there.  Thanks!

(Our behaviour is and has always been different that IE - we don't submit on 
an Enter press unless there is exactly one text input in the form.)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 22526 ***

Comment 2

[Blake Ross]

Eric: why do we use that behavior?  IE's behavior, to me, seems more 
intuitive.  What does the amount of textboxes have to do with it?

Comment 3

[Eric Pollmann]

> Eric: why do we use that behavior?  IE's behavior, to me, seems more 
> intuitive.  What does the amount of textboxes have to do with it?

I believe the original reasoning was to prevent accidental form submission.  If 
there are many text inputs in a form, most likely all should be filled out 
before submitting the form.  If there is only one, most likely it is the only 
one that needs filled out before submitting the form.  I didn't have anything to 
do with the design of Nav 4.x's behaviour in this case, so I don't know what 
kind of usability studies went into that, if any.

Further discussion should be moved to bug 22526 so it will be preserved for 
future duplicates as well.  :)

Comment 4

[Blake Ross]

oops, sorry about that. will move it there. Thanks!