Rails: On tab click submit a form

Question

I have a form that I would like to be submitted when you click the tab button on your keyboard. I think I'm doing with my own code... How will I do this?

Adam Bergmark · Accepted Answer · 2011-05-28 16:23:47Z

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myElement.keydown = function (e) {
  if (e.which === 9) myForm.submit();
};

9 is the tab character. I think this is x-browser compatible.

answered May 28, 2011 at 16:23

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Keenan Thompson Over a year ago

myForm is the name of the form? And myElement is what?

maerics Over a year ago

You could also use "document.body" instead of "myElement".

Adam Bergmark Over a year ago

myElement is the element you want to want to bind the event to, you may or may not want to bind it to document (the entire page), you could bind it to just an input element by fetching it, such as document.forms.myFormId.elements.myElementId.keydown = .... myForm is the form element, such as document.forms.myFormId

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