Prevent users from submitting a form by hitting Enter

Question

I have a survey on a website, and there seems to be some issues with the users hitting enter (I don\'t know why) and accidentally submitting the survey (form) without clicki

Answer 1

In my specific case I had to stop ENTER from submitting the form and also simulate the clicking of the submit button. This is because the submit button had a click handler on it because we were within a modal window (inherited old code). In any case here's my combo solutions for this case.

    $('input,select').keypress(function(event) {
        // detect ENTER key
        if (event.keyCode == 13) {
            // simulate submit button click
            $("#btn-submit").click();
            // stop form from submitting via ENTER key press
            event.preventDefault ? event.preventDefault() : event.returnValue = false;
        }
    });

This use case is specifically useful for people working with IE8.