Capture an Enter keypress, Fake a Tab keypress

[TechnoSpaz]

Does anyone know how to implement a simple capture of enter and make the browser
think they pressed tab.

I tried:

If window.event.keycode = 13 Then
window.event.keycode = 9
End If

and had that called from a OnKeyPress. I know it gets there after throwing
in a MsgBox debug line. But I cannot figure out how to move the dern cursor.
I have a lot of input boxes created via ASP before the page is loaded and
I hoping to avoid using a setfocus kinda command.

Too bad SendKeys isn't available in DHTML.

Thanx for any help

[Matthew Solnit]

"TechnoSpaz" <Atom_Russell@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:3c34ea38$1@147.208.176.211...
> I tried:
> If window.event.keycode = 13 Then
> window.event.keycode = 9
> End If
> and had that called from a OnKeyPress.

It might work if you try it from onkeydown instead of onkeypress.

-- Matthew Solnit

[Techno_Spaz]

"Matthew Solnit" <msolnit.spamsux.yahoo-com> wrote:
>"TechnoSpaz" <Atom_Russell@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>news:3c34ea38$1@147.208.176.211...
>> I tried:
>> If window.event.keycode = 13 Then
>> window.event.keycode = 9
>> End If
>> and had that called from a OnKeyPress.
>
>It might work if you try it from onkeydown instead of onkeypress.
>
>-- Matthew Solnit
>
>
I tried that as well, no luck. Thank you though.

[TheGuy]

"TechnoSpaz" <Atom_Russell@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>Does anyone know how to implement a simple capture of enter and make the
browser
>think they pressed tab.
>
>I tried:
>
> If window.event.keycode = 13 Then
> window.event.keycode = 9
> End If

I was able to trap the backspace key with the following JavaScript called
from the onKeyDown() event:

if ( event.keyCode == 8 )
{
}

[ovid]

Here's some code I snagged from a web site the other day. I haven't done
anything but skim it and was going to figure out what it is doing but haven't
had the time. Just a guess, could help. If not, sorry.

function AutoTab( hItem, maxLength, linkItem ){

var vKeyCode,oItem
oItem = eval(linkItem);
vKeyCode = window.event.keyCode
if(vKeyCode==9 && window.event.shiftKey){ return; }
switch(window.event.keyCode){
case 37 : return;
case 39 : return;
case 16 : return;
case 46 : return;
}
if (window.event.keyCode != 9 ){
if( typeof(oItem) == "object" ){
if( (String(oItem.value).length == 0) && (String(hItem.value).length
== maxLength) ){
oItem.focus()
}
}
}
}





"TheGuy" <d@d.org> wrote:
>
>"TechnoSpaz" <Atom_Russell@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>Does anyone know how to implement a simple capture of enter and make the
>browser
>>think they pressed tab.
>>
>>I tried:
>>
>> If window.event.keycode = 13 Then
>> window.event.keycode = 9
>> End If
>
>I was able to trap the backspace key with the following JavaScript called
>from the onKeyDown() event:
>
>if ( event.keyCode == 8 )
>{
>}