Form Posting on Enter

How can response form "Post"ing be prevented when "Enter" is pressed by mistake before the "Submit" button is clicked?

I have a response form which is "Post"ed using a "Submit" button to an .asp page for processing in the normal way.

However, during testing I have discovered that pressing "Enter" in error half way through field completion causes the form entry to truncate and the form to be "Post"ed prematurely.

Is there any way to prevent this happening until the "submit" button is clicked?

Regards

Roger Sansom

Comments

Form validations

November 25, 2004 by Chris Charlton

First, I'd add some Server-Side form validation(s), and then maybe some Client-Side validation(s) on required fields, etc. That was there's a layer between actually allowing the data to POST, and the user filling out the form correctly. There's a free tutorial floating about form validations, and Yaromat has a free JavaScript form validation suite, or you can buy a whole Client/Server Validation suite from WebAssist.com (WA Validation Toolkit)

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