a4j:form does not submit with enter key in IE6/7, works fine

[lincolnthree]

Hi, I've got a form that takes input from one field and then re-renders itself.

In FireFox this works fine, the user can press return in the input box or click the submit button and all ajax events work fine... but in IE6/7, the user must click the button.

If they press return in IE6/7, A4J does Validation (error messages show up with bad input), but no submit/action method is called if the input passes validation.

How do you fix this? Did I do something wrong? Thanks,

a4j:form id="storyform" reRender="storyform" ajaxSubmit="true" ajaxSingle="true">

 <div class="centered" id="story"><span><h:outputText
 value="... " /></span><c:forEach items="#{storyBean.current}"
 var="chunk">
 <span><h:outputText value="${chunk} " /></span>
 </c:forEach><span><h:outputText value="..." /></span></div>
 <div class="clearing"></div>

 <div class="centered" id="contribution"><h:message
 showSummary="true" showDetail="false" for="input"
 style="color: red;" /><br />
 <h:inputText id="input" autocomplete="off"
 value="#{storyBean.input}"
 validator="#{storyBean.validateContribution}" required="true" />
 <h:commandButton id="submit" action="#{storyBean.addContribution}"
 value="submit" /></div>
</a4j:form>

I've tried an <a4j:commandButton> as well, but still no luck.

[lincolnthree]

I checked the <a4j:log> and noticed in FireFox on pressing enter:

FireFox:
debug[23:48:52,621]: Form submitted by button storyform:submit
debug[23:48:52,621]: NEW AJAX REQUEST !!! with form :storyform

But in IE:
debug[23:48:52,621]: NEW AJAX REQUEST !!! with form :storyform

Seems like FireFox actually clicks the button for you when you press enter. Recommendations?

[lincolnthree]

SOLVED: IE does not send the submit button / submit the form if there is only ONE text input field... good to know. I fixed it by adding an invisible, unusable, unbound input field to the form.

<h:inputText type="text" style="visibility:hidden;display:none;" disabled="disabled" required="false" />