Javascript capture key

Question

I am trying to catpure the enter key from a textarea using javascript. The problem is that although I am able to find out that the \"enter\" key was pressed, I am not unable

Answer 1

Try setting this function as the onKeyDown event for the text area:

ex: onkeydown="javascript:return fnIgnoreEnter(event);"

function fnIgnoreEnter(thisEvent) {
  if (thisEvent.keyCode == 13) { // enter key
    return false; // do nothing
  }
}