H
harold
hi guys,
How can i create a hyperlink that also activates with the enter
key?
How can i create a hyperlink that also activates with the enter
key?
R
rf
harold said:
Press the tab key until the link is focused.
Press enter.
Cheers
Richard.
H
harold
hi richard,
that's not quite what i'm after but thanks for your help
anyway
regards
that's not quite what i'm after but thanks for your help
anyway
regards
R
rf
[upsidedown posting corrected]
the enter key to activate a link is a *user* action, not an *author* action.
It would be rather simple to use javascript to hook the enter keys onkeydown
event and cause it to do something diferent. However what if I, as a user,
wish to use the above key sequence? Remember, I may not be able to use a
mouse. When I press enter instead of the link I have laborously tabbed to
firing a totally different one does. Your site becomes unnavigable to a
keyboard user.I also might have typed another address into the address bar
and pressed enter. Your link fires, not the one I wish to go to.
You might be deemed to be intentionally discriminating against certain
disabled people which, as you must know, can be illegal in Australia
Cheers
Richard.
Oh I knew exactly what you were after. I was trying to point out that using
the enter key to activate a link is a *user* action, not an *author* action.
It would be rather simple to use javascript to hook the enter keys onkeydown
event and cause it to do something diferent. However what if I, as a user,
wish to use the above key sequence? Remember, I may not be able to use a
mouse. When I press enter instead of the link I have laborously tabbed to
firing a totally different one does. Your site becomes unnavigable to a
keyboard user.I also might have typed another address into the address bar
and pressed enter. Your link fires, not the one I wish to go to.
You might be deemed to be intentionally discriminating against certain
disabled people which, as you must know, can be illegal in Australia
Cheers
Richard.
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Ryan Stewart
How about a submit button? That's automatically triggered by enter.
Something like this:
<input type="submit" onclick="location.href='www.w3schools.com';">
Something like this:
<input type="submit" onclick="location.href='www.w3schools.com';">
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harold
hi richard
i'm looking at a simple web style training booklet to show the
elderly how to do a certain action and prior to learning the mouse i would
like them to be able to enter the next page by just pressing enter.
i'm looking at a simple web style training booklet to show the
elderly how to do a certain action and prior to learning the mouse i would
like them to be able to enter the next page by just pressing enter.
rf said:[upsidedown posting corrected]Oh I knew exactly what you were after. I was trying to point out that using
the enter key to activate a link is a *user* action, not an *author* action.
It would be rather simple to use javascript to hook the enter keys onkeydown
event and cause it to do something diferent. However what if I, as a user,
wish to use the above key sequence? Remember, I may not be able to use a
mouse. When I press enter instead of the link I have laborously tabbed to
firing a totally different one does. Your site becomes unnavigable to a
keyboard user.I also might have typed another address into the address bar
and pressed enter. Your link fires, not the one I wish to go to.
You might be deemed to be intentionally discriminating against certain
disabled people which, as you must know, can be illegal in Australia
Cheers
Richard.
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Leif K-Brooks
harold said:
Are you sure this should really be an HTML page? Sounds like it would be
better as a fullscreen GUI application.
C
Chris Morris
Ryan Stewart said:
It's only automatically triggered _in some browsers_ if any part of
the form has focus. And what's the onclick for? (I know what it does,
I just can't see why you need it there)
T
Toby A Inkster
harold said:
Well, not quite what you want, but if you get these people to use Opera 7
as their browser, they can automatically move on to the next page using
space bar if you use this code somewhere between <head> and </head>:
<link rel="next" href="nextpage.html">
R
Ryan Stewart
You'll have to forgive me. My limited html development experience is allChris Morris said:
with IE. As for the onclick, how else does it know where to go if it isn't
part of a form and you don't specify an onclick?
S
Steve Pugh
Ryan Stewart said:
Netscape 4, for example, will not display input elements unless they
are inside a form element. Having input elements on their own is
risky.
<form method="get" action="http://www.example.com/">
<input type="submit">
</form>
will work just the same as your onclick version but will also work
when JavaScript isn't enabled.
Steve