How to capture enter key being pressed on pages containing multiple forms?

Question

I have inherited a web application where the usual ability to press return in any of the input fields has been disabled for the very good reason that the page contains multiple

Answer 1

You can bind key press event for Enter key in jquery :

$("form").bind("keypress", function(e) {
   if (e.keyCode == 13) {
      your_custom_submit_function();
      return false; // ignore the default event
   }
});