Enter button does not submit form (IE ONLY) ASP.NET

Question

I have a form with a textbox and a button. IE is the only browser that will not submit the form when Enter is pressed (works in FF, Opera, Safari, Chrome, etc.). I found th

Answer 1

There is a good write up of this problem here, and a nice jquery based solution:

http://www.thefutureoftheweb.com/blog/submit-a-form-in-ie-with-enter

Answer 2

This is due to a peculiarity in IE for single text field inputs.

A simple solution is to stop the page having a single text field by adding another hidden one.

<input type="text" name="hidden" style="visibility:hidden;display:none;" />

see.. http://www.4guysfromrolla.com/articles/060805-1.aspx

Answer 3

Hide the button - not using display:none, but with the following styles:

position: absolute; /* no longer takes up layout space */
visibility: hidden; /* no longer clickable / visible */

If you do this, you won't need to add any other elements or hidden inputs.