How to use a4j:hotKey to submit a form via commandLink

[twolf]

Hi there,

I cant figure out what i made wrong. I am trying to submit a form on key-event "enter/return" by invoking an commandLink with javaScript.

Here is my code:

<h:form id="myForm">
 ...
 <t:inputText id="name" value="#{myController.anobject.property}" />
 ...
 <h:commandLink id="doSomethinkLink" action="#{myController.doSomethink}" styleClass="cssbutton">
 <span>...</span>
 </h:commandLink>
</h:form>
<rich:hotKey key="enter" handler="#{rich:element('doSomethinkLink')}.click()"/>

Nothing happend here.

(Additional info:Got no script error, jquery is working fine when i use it manually.)

How to get tis work?


Greetings

Tobias

[mark77]

Hi,

I did it this way:

<a4j:region>
 <table>
 <tr>
 <td>

 <h:inputText id="smallSearch" class="smallinput" style="width:200px" value="#{searchHandler.quickSearchText}" />
 </td>
 <td width="30px" align="center">
 <h:commandButton image="images/button_lupe.png" reRender="main" title="search"
 ajaxSingle="true" action="#{searchHandler.performQuickSearch}" id="smallsearchbutton"/>
 <rich:hotKey key="return" selector="#smallSearch" handler="#{rich:element('smallsearchbutton')}.click()"/>
 </td>

 </tr>
 </table>
 </a4j:region>

All of it inside an a4j:form

[ahoehma]

Hihi,

I'm bloged last week about "default form action"

http://ahoehma.wordpress.com/2009/11/16/richfaces-modal-panel-default-formular-action/

Regards
Andreas

[keysersoze]

Hi

Stumbled upon this thread since I was having same Problems like OP.

First of all it is important to note that a <h:commandlink> renders out <a href="#" onclick="...."...> whereas a <h:commandButton> produces a Button.

Additionally Firefox does NOT interpret click() on <a href>-Tags. So your example from above should work in IE.

To make a long Story short, use:

<rich:hotKey key="enter" handler="#{rich:element('doSomethinkLink')}.onclick()"/>

instead of

<rich:hotKey key="enter" handler="#{rich:element('doSomethinkLink')}.click()"/>

greetings

[ilya_shaikovsky]

and use return instead of enter. as far as I remember there are no such shortcut like enter.