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

I don't think you need jQuery or javascript for this. You can indeed detect which Form a user hits submit on, or even which submit button is hit (in case there are more than one submit button per form).

Here's the code you would use:

Then for the form-processing script, you would simply check the name of the submit button, for example:

if (isset($_POST['action1a'])) ... // PHP syntax

Alternatively, you can use images as submit buttons, then you can use the same name for all the submit buttons and just check their values--you can also do this with normal submit buttons if every button has a unique value attribute.

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Edit: One more method is to combine POST and GET values, i.e.: