Disable enter in input box

Question

I have a textarea where it should not be possible to input line breaks by pressing enter. How can I disable enter in my textarea?

That is the code:

<textarea name="textarea" style="width:250px;height:150px;"></textarea>

Why would you want to do that? If the user is not allowed to add new lines, then just use an ``. — str, Dec 28 '16 at 10:52
Possible duplicate of [disable enter key on specific textboxes](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5482825/disable-enter-key-on-specific-textboxes) — Luzan Baral, Dec 28 '16 at 10:54
Possible duplicate of [Disable New Line in Textarea when Pressed ENTER](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18779322/disable-new-line-in-textarea-when-pressed-enter) — , Dec 28 '16 at 10:57

score 7 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 26 '17 at 11:05

7

Don't forget to use the keydown event instead of the click event

   $("input").keydown(function(event) {
    if (event.keyCode == 13) {
        event.preventDefault();
    }
});

answered Apr 26 '17 at 11:05

Fola Azeez

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 28 '16 at 11:03

If you use jquery in your web application you can do fallowing trick to disable enter key.

$('textarea').keydown(function(e) {
    if(e.which == 13) { return false; }
});

else you can use this

document.getElementById('textarea_id').addEventListener('keydown', function(k){
    if(k.keyCode == 13) return false;
});

I hope this will help you!

score -2 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 28 '16 at 10:52

-2

Use event.preventdefault and next do what you like. For example

<script>
$("textarea").click(function(event) {
  if (event.keyCode == 13) {
        event.preventDefault();
    }
});
</script>

answered Dec 28 '16 at 10:52

tam nguyen

The *enter* key is not the only way to produce a line feed ;-) – Álvaro González Dec 28 '16 at 10:54

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