In IE8 enter key in a form does not work

Question

I have a problem that in IE8 the enter does not work to submit a form. I have generated a test page to expose this problem. It seems that displaying the form in the on

Answer 1

I believe Yasin has got the point. I just had the same problem: multiple text fields within a form whose visibility is "hidden". My workaround (to prevent the form from flashing) is to set the form opacity to 0 in the css, and then customise its style settings with jQuery on document ready.

I believe this is not something to fix with JS.

Answer 2

I tried it in IE8 and it works for me. You have to make sure that part of the form has focus though.

Javascript has a focus function that you can use to set the focus if that's what you need.

var textbox = document.getElementById("whatever name input box's id will be");
if(textbox) textbox.focus();