Enter in description textbox submits form

[adamopenweb]

As described in this bug: webcompat/web-bugs#9706

If you press enter in the description textbox, it submits the form before you've (potentially) finished filling it out.

Maybe we should prevent this behaviour and force the user to click the button?

[miketaylr]

Yeah, that's crappy behavior, IMO.

[softvision-sergiulogigan]

I just made the "Enter" mistake on webcompat/web-bugs#14683
I too think that submitting an issue should be done exclusively by clicking the Report button (or Tabbing your way there and hitting the Spacebar)

Curious enough, the issue got submitted as Anonymus, despite the fact I was logged in.

[miketaylr]

Curious enough, the issue got submitted as Anonymus, despite the fact I was logged in.

Ah, I know why. We rely on which button you've clicked (to allow logged in users to report things anonymously if they prefer). The current bug is sort of undefined behavior...

[softvision-sergiulogigan]

Let's put this webcompat/web-bugs#16299 for reference.

[Regaddi]

Description is not a multiline field at all, it's just a normal single line input field.
Hitting enter there for sure triggers a submit (which applies to every single line input field in that form, like URL, browser and operating system).

However it only triggers the form submit, when all required fields contain technically valid information.

We could prevent the submit by hitting keyboard enter generally, which is from an accessibility point of view not ideal. Also it would require some extended event handling for keyboard events on the form in a whole.

So there are multiple possible approaches to tackle this issue:

1. Prevent enter events and force the users to click one of the submit buttons
2. Before submitting the form with enter, let the user confirm the action by using a confirm dialog (in the simplest form this might be a window.confirm(). An extended version might take usage of some HTML modal dialog with a "preview" of the issue details.
3. Do nothing, since enter is a completely valid way to submit web forms.
4. Instead of submitting the form using enter we could tab to the next field, which is probably not, what a user expects to happen when he hits enter.

What do you think? @zoepage @miketaylr

[miketaylr]

I think 1 is the least surprising.

[zoepage]

+1 on 1. :)