XPage onkeypress event handler - how can I stop form submission?

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Subject: XPage onkeypress event handler - how can I stop form submission?

Feedback Type: Question

Product Area: Domino Designer on Eclipse (DDE)

Technical Area: New Features

Platform: ALL

Release: 8.5

Reproducible: Always

I am trying to set an edit box on an XPage so that, when a user presses the Enter key, the form will not be submitted, but something else will happen instead. I have javascript code that works for this purpose on legacy Domino forms, but seems to be broken on XPages.

For testing, I have a function in a client JS library called "isEnterKey" which returns true if called when the Enter key is pressed, false otherwise.

I have this simple code in the onkeypress event of an edit box:

if (isEnterKey(thisEvent)) {

alert('Enter key!');

return false;

} else return true;

When tested, it is correctly showing the alert "Enter key!" when (and only when) I press the Enter key in that edit box, but the form is still being submitted. How can I stop the form submission?

Feedback number SLES7RK8D3 created by ~George Umboosicheketsi on 04/29/2009

Status: Closed
Comments: See solution in this response.