Form submitting when pressing enter in Textarea

Question

I\'ve been trying various methods to get a form to submit when hitting the enter key. I know it works with an input field, but because this is going to be a comment, it nee

Answer 1

try this jsfiddle

HTML:

<form>
   <textarea class="messageTextarea">Write your comment here...</textarea>

 </form>​

JS:

       $('.messageTextarea').keydown(function(event) {
    if (event.keyCode == 13) {
        $(this.form).submit()
        return false;
     }
}).focus(function(){
    if(this.value == "Write your comment here..."){
         this.value = "";
    }

}).blur(function(){
    if(this.value==""){
         this.value = "Write your comment here...";
    }
});

$("form").submit(function(){
       var name = $(this).siblings('.messageTextarea').val();
    var theid = $(this).attr('data-the_id');
    var dataString = name;

    $.ajax({
        dataType: 'json',
        url: "https://api.instagram.com/v1/media/"+$(this).attr('data-the_id')+"/comments?",
        type: "POST",
        data: "text="+dataString,
        success: function(data) {
            // finish load
            console.log(data, dataString, 'fail');
        },
        error: function(data) {
            var username = JSON.parse(localStorage.getItem('iguser'));
            var profilepic = JSON.parse(localStorage.getItem('iguserimg'));
            //console.log(data, dataString, 'succ');

            $('.box[data-the_id="' + theid + '"]').children('.postMessage').children('.messageComments').append('<li><img class="commentUserImg" src="' + profilepic + '"><div class="commentUser">' + username + '</div><div class="commentText">' + dataString + '</div></li>');

            $('.messageTextarea').val(''); // Remove comment from TextArea
        }
    });

    return false;
});
​
​

​

Answer 2

try it this way

<form method="post" action="">
    <textarea></textarea>
</form>

<script type="text/javascript" src="./lib/js/jquery/jquery-1.8.1.min.js"></script>

<script type="text/javascript">
    jQuery('textarea').keydown(function(event) {
        if (event.keyCode == 13) {

            this.form.submit();
            return false;
         }
    });
</script>

I tested it, and it worked

I added only the parameter event to the function header

Answer 3

I think you would also want to give users ability to go to new line using shift.

$('.messageTextarea').on('keyup', function(e) {
    if (e.which == 13 && ! e.shiftKey) {
        // your AJAX call
    }
});

See this: http://jsfiddle.net/almirsarajcic/Gd8PQ/

It worked for me.

Also, you need to remove that submit button you currently have.