topic Prevent Form submissions by pressing enter in Sales Hub Tools

Prevent Form submissions by pressing enter

RWright1 — Wed, 08 Nov 2023 01:13:06 GMT

Hi,

In lead capture forms, can we stop the form submitting by pressing enter. As clients are using it to create a paragraph and the are submitting the form before they have finished.

Re: Prevent Form submissions by pressing enter

elizheleva — Wed, 08 Nov 2023 09:13:13 GMT

Hi, @RWright1 ,

an easy way to do so would be to have a checkbox at the end of the form for GDPR purposes, for example. This way, even if they press enter within one of the fields, unless they click that checkbox, which would be a required field, the form won't be submitted. 😉 This way, you get what you wanted initially, plus you're GDPR compliant. Isn't that a win?! 😄

Let me know how you get on,

Eli

Re: Prevent Form submissions by pressing enter

TomM2 — Wed, 08 Nov 2023 16:02:55 GMT

The only way to do this would be through custom JS. You could use something like a prevent default action to stop this.

It's worth noting however, it's expected by screen readers that tab switches fields and enter submits the form. I'm not entirely up to date with accessibility laws but I do believe not allowing enter to submit a form would be against best acessibility practices at best.