Form Submit: Internet Explorer behaving badly

Apr 14, 2009 html javascript jquery

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Internet Explorer Does Not Submit Form on Enter

Correct! Instead, I load my page with this jquery

$('input').keydown(function(e) {
  if (e.keyCode == 13) {
    $(this).parents('form').submit();
    return false;
  }
});

Button Element Not Submitting in Internet Explorer

Correct! Mainly because I was lazy.

But in FireFox works fine for a submit.

In IE - don’t forget to add type="submit"

<button>Works in FF</button>
<button type="submit">Works and is probably what you SHOULD do</button>

That is all.