On a side note...
Do you want/need autocomplete becasue it is possible to stop a textfield being
capable of autocomplete. I ask simply becasue your example uses a login field
and sometimes it's not security concious to allow autocomplete on some login
fields.
Otherwise you'll just have to log what key was pressed in an external variable
EVERYTIME a key is pressed and check that variale at the start of every
keypress event.
James
________________________________
From: jquery-en@googlegroups.com on behalf of rob303
Sent: Tue 20/01/2009 14:58
To: jQuery (English)
Subject: [jQuery] Re: Identify last keeypess
Hi James,
Thanks for the reply. It's just a standard text input:
<input class="login_input" type="text" name="user" value="" />
When the user clicks and starts to type the browser may, depending on
what's been entered before, give a list of options. Some users might
use the down or up arrow keys to highlight one of the options and then
hit submit to select it. This, I think, is standard browser behaviour
- unless I have it wrong? Unfortunately for me, hitting enter at that
point will submit the form.
Any help would be much appreciated!
Rob.
On Jan 20, 1:56 pm, "James Hughes" <j.hug...@kainos.com> wrote:
> Rob,
>
> Is this some sort of autocomplete text box or is it a select input?
>
> James
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: jquery-en@googlegroups.com on behalf of rob303
> Sent: Tue 20/01/2009 13:44
> To: jQuery (English)
> Subject: [jQuery] Identify last keeypess
>
> Hi,
>
> I've been searching the web for an answer to this but haven't been
> able to find one.
>
> I have a form which is using an image as it's submit button and I want
> users to be able to submit the form by pressing enter. Simple enough:
>
> // submit the login form if the user hits enter
> $('.login_input').keypress(function(event) {
> if(event.keyCode == 13) {
> $('#login').submit();
> }
>
> });
>
> That works fine. However, if the user is presented with a list of
> options for the text input by their browser and they use the up and
> down arrows keys to highlight, then enter to select an option the form
> gets submitted. Not ideal! So, my question is how can I identify the
> last key press before the user hits enter? Ideally my logic will be
> something like:
>
> $('.login_input').keypress(function(event) {
> if(LAST KEYPRESS IS NOT UP OR DOWN ARROW) {
> if(event.keyCode == 13) {
> $('#login').submit();
> }
> }
>
> });
>
> Hopefully, that makes sense! Many thanks in advance for any help.
>
> Rob.
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