I\'m looking to create a form where pressing the enter key causes focus to go to the \"next\" form element on the page. The solution I keep finding on the web is...
I used the logic suggested by Andrew which is very effective. And this is my version:
$('body').on('keydown', 'input, select', function(e) {
if (e.key === "Enter") {
var self = $(this), form = self.parents('form:eq(0)'), focusable, next;
focusable = form.find('input,a,select,button,textarea').filter(':visible');
next = focusable.eq(focusable.index(this)+1);
if (next.length) {
next.focus();
} else {
form.submit();
}
return false;
}
});
KeyboardEvent's keycode (i.e: e.keycode
) depreciation notice :- https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/KeyboardEvent/keyCode
I've had a similar problem, where I wanted to press + on the numpad to tab to the next field. Now I've released a library that I think will help you.
PlusAsTab: A jQuery plugin to use the numpad plus key as a tab key equivalent.
Since you want enter/↵ instead, you can set the options. Find out which key you want to use with the jQuery event.which demo.
JoelPurra.PlusAsTab.setOptions({
// Use enter instead of plus
// Number 13 found through demo at
// https://api.jquery.com/event.which/
key: 13
});
// Matches all inputs with name "a[]" (needs some character escaping)
$('input[name=a\\[\\]]').plusAsTab();
You can try it out yourself in the PlusAsTab enter as tab demo.
Thank you for the good script.
I have just added the shift event on the above function to go back between elements, I thought someone may need this.
$('body').on('keydown', 'input, select, textarea', function(e) {
var self = $(this)
, form = self.parents('form:eq(0)')
, focusable
, next
, prev
;
if (e.shiftKey) {
if (e.keyCode == 13) {
focusable = form.find('input,a,select,button,textarea').filter(':visible');
prev = focusable.eq(focusable.index(this)-1);
if (prev.length) {
prev.focus();
} else {
form.submit();
}
}
}
else
if (e.keyCode == 13) {
focusable = form.find('input,a,select,button,textarea').filter(':visible');
next = focusable.eq(focusable.index(this)+1);
if (next.length) {
next.focus();
} else {
form.submit();
}
return false;
}
});
I reworked the OPs solution into a Knockout binding and thought I'd share it. Thanks very much :-)
Here's a Fiddle
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
<head>
<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.9.1/jquery.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="http://ajax.aspnetcdn.com/ajax/knockout/knockout-2.2.1.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
</head>
<body>
<div data-bind="nextFieldOnEnter:true">
<input type="text" />
<input type="text" />
<select>
<option value="volvo">Volvo</option>
<option value="saab">Saab</option>
<option value="mercedes">Mercedes</option>
<option value="audi">Audi</option>
</select>
<input type="text" />
<input type="text" />
</div>
<script type="text/javascript">
ko.bindingHandlers.nextFieldOnEnter = {
init: function(element, valueAccessor, allBindingsAccessor) {
$(element).on('keydown', 'input, select', function (e) {
var self = $(this)
, form = $(element)
, focusable
, next
;
if (e.keyCode == 13) {
focusable = form.find('input,a,select,button,textarea').filter(':visible');
var nextIndex = focusable.index(this) == focusable.length -1 ? 0 : focusable.index(this) + 1;
next = focusable.eq(nextIndex);
next.focus();
return false;
}
});
}
};
ko.applyBindings({});
</script>
</body>
</html>
Easiest way to solve this problem with the focus function of JavaScript as follows:
You can copy and try it @ home!
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en" dir="ltr">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title></title>
</head>
<body>
<input id="input1" type="text" onkeypress="pressEnter()" />
<input id="input2" type="text" onkeypress="pressEnter2()" />
<input id="input3" type="text"/>
<script type="text/javascript">
function pressEnter() {
// Key Code for ENTER = 13
if ((event.keyCode == 13)) {
document.getElementById("input2").focus({preventScroll:false});
}
}
function pressEnter2() {
if ((event.keyCode == 13)) {
document.getElementById("input3").focus({preventScroll:false});
}
}
</script>
</body>
</html>
This worked for me:
$(document).on('keydown', ':tabbable', function(e) {
if (e.key === "Enter") {
e.preventDefault();
var $canfocus = $(':tabbable:visible');
var index = $canfocus.index(document.activeElement) + 1;
if (index >= $canfocus.length) index = 0;
$canfocus.eq(index).focus();
}
});