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Spacebar (keycode 32) to act as Enter key except inside an input field

I'm working on adding accessibility to a program for hard-of-seeing users. For this, we are using the tab key to maneuver through the page. The user can then use the spacebar as the enter key, to open a link they are focused on, for example. I'm working on the spacebar to act in this manner at all times (using "e.preventDefault()"), except of course when inside an input field. I've written what makes logical sense to me, but does not work. Does anyone have any suggestions, please? This is what I have in a javascript file:
var textFieldEntry = document.querySelectorAll('input.field-input');
if (e.key == 'Space' || e.keyCode == 32) {
if (e.target !== textFieldEntry) {
e.preventDefault();
e.target.click();
};
}

Please correct me this text,
I am using android browser
so i need the spacebar to act as physical spacebar
with an API, This physical spacebar is actually itself acting as Enter (to select from list) and adding "space" to the text.
its like an interactive text correction
var textFieldEntry = document.querySelectorAll('textarea.field-input');
$(document).on('keyup', function(e){
if (e.key == 'Space' || e.keyup == 229) {
console.log("space pressed");
console.log("e.target", e.target);
console.log("textFieldEntry", textFieldEntry);
if (e.target !== textFieldEntry) {
e.preventDefault();
e.target.click();
};
}
});

not an answer, designed to show OP why his function doesn't work as intended and will be removed
var textFieldEntry = document.querySelectorAll('input.field-input');
$(document).on('keydown', function(e){
if (e.key == 'Space' || e.keyCode == 32) {
console.log("space pressed");
console.log("e.target", e.target);
console.log("textFieldEntry", textFieldEntry);
if (e.target !== textFieldEntry) {
e.preventDefault();
e.target.click();
};
}
});
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<input class="field-input"/>
<input class="field-input"/>
<input class="field-input"/>

Disable enter submit

I have a form with a textfield inside and I am trying to disable the default behavior when the browser submits the whole form if the user presses Enter while the textfield is selected.
$('#recaptcha_response_field').keydown(function(event) { if (event.keyCode == 13) {
event.preventDefault();
event.stopPropagation();
event.stopImmediatePropagation();
alert("You Press ENTER key");
return false;
}
});
Currently am getting "You Press ENTER key" and the default behavior isn't overridden.

Try this:
$(document).on("keypress", 'form', function (e) {
var code = e.keyCode || e.which;
if (code == 13) {
e.preventDefault();
return false;
}
});
This will prevent the form submit on keypress
DEMO HERE

I found this and it works for me.
<input type="text" name="somename" id="someid" value="" onkeypress="return event.keyCode!=13">

To prevent the script from blocking the enter key on other elements such as on a textarea. Change the target from "form" to "input".
$(document).on("keypress", "input", function (e) {
var code = e.keyCode || e.which;
if (code == 13) {
e.preventDefault();
return false;
}
});

If none of the above solution is working for you , and you are using javascript anyway , why don't you use button type as 'button' <input type='button'> and submit it using javascript
$('#form_id').submit();

U can use this script to prevent enter on entire from.
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).on("keypress", 'form', function (e) {
if (e.target.className.indexOf("allowEnter") == -1) {
var code = e.keyCode || e.which;
if (code == 13) {
e.preventDefault();
return false;
}
}
});
</script>
you put the classname to which control need to use enter

Prevent Form submitting and hitting keyup event handler not working

Having some problem cross browser. I need to Support IE7-9, my site is set to IE7 standards - cannot be changed. Then i need to support latest chrome, safari and firefox.
I want to hit a keyup event in a textbox on enter. Problem is i have a keypress event added to the form on that page which is submitting the form which i dont want to happen.
Sample application would be like this.
JAVASCRIPT:
$(document).ready(function () {
$("form").bind("keypress", function (e) {
var code = (e.keyCode ? e.keyCode : e.which);
if (code == 13) {
$("#log1").append("Key press - Form event");
}
});
$("#myInput1").bind("keypress", function (e) {
var code = (e.keyCode ? e.keyCode : e.which);
if (code != 13) {
return true;
}
$("#log2").append("Enter pressed - input event");
//if (!e) var e = window.event;
e.cancelBubble = true;
e.returnValue = false;
if (e.stopPropagation) {
e.stopPropagation();
//e.preventDefault();
}
});
$("#myInput1").bind("keyup", function (e) {
var code = (e.keyCode ? e.keyCode : e.which);
if (code != 13) {
return true;
}
$("#log1").append("Key up - Enter pressed - input event");
});
});​
HTML
<li onkeypress="alert('hi')">
<input id="myInput1" type="text" />
<div id="log1"></div>
<div id="log2"></div>
</li>
If i use e.preventDefault() - keyup event is not hit, if i dont use it, page is posting back.
I want to see "Key up - Enter pressed - input event" to be written to screen on pressing enter, across all browsers.
Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.

Finally was able to do it like this:
$(document).ready(function () {
$("form").bind("keypress", function (e) {
var code = (e.keyCode ? e.keyCode : e.which);
if (code == 13) {
$("#log1").append("Key press - Form event");
}
});
$("#myInput1").bind("keypress", function (e) {
var code = (e.keyCode ? e.keyCode : e.which);
if (e.keyCode != 13) {
return true;
}
$("#log2").append("Enter pressed - input event");
e.stopPropagation();
sampleE = e.keyCode;
$("#myInput1").trigger("keyup");
return false;
});
$("#myInput1").bind("keyup", function (e) {
if (!e.keyCode)
e.keyCode = sampleE;
if (e.keyCode != 13) {
return true;
}
$("#log1").append("Key up - Enter pressed - input event");
});
});
var sampleE = null;
I know this is not the best of the options but this is working. Thanks All.

Keypress to change class in jQuery

I have a problem I can't seem to sort out.
I have a form with a custom styled button (input type=button). When typing in the text field, I want people to be able to press the TAB key and go to the button. However, it won't use a tab-index so my solution was to highlight the label and change the CSS to give the button a new border color. However, the border color will not change on keypress in any browser other than Firefox.
Here is what I have:
$(function() {
$("#email").bind("keypress", function(e) {
if (e.keyCode == 13) {
send();
return false;
};
if (e.keyCode == 9) {
$("#submit_btn").removeClass('submit1').addClass('submit1after');
};
});
};
The first enter keypress is to serialize and email the form and all.
I can't seem to get it to work for the life of me. What am I doing wrong? Is there a better solution to what I'm trying to accomplish?
Thanks for taking the time,
Armik

Use keydown instead, for me that works (see demo: http://jsfiddle.net/npGtX/2/)
$(function () {
$("#email").bind("keydown", function (e) {
if (e.keyCode == 13) {
send();
return false;
};
if (e.keyCode == 9) {
$("#submit_btn").removeClass('submit1').addClass('submit1after');
};
});
};
Also I found this: Suppressing keyPress for non-character keys?
keypress is not necessarily triggered when the keypress is not a
character. So the browser may not trigger an event on backspace, F1,
the down key, etc.

You can use the keyup event and event object's which property, jQuery normalizes the which property and it's cross-browser:
$(function() {
$("#email").bind("keyup", function(e) {
if (e.which == 13) {
send();
return false;
};
if (e.which == 9) {
$("#submit_btn").toggleClass('submit1 submit1after');
};
});
};

$(function() {
$("#email").keypress(function(e) {
if (e.keyCode == 13 || e.which== 13) {
send();
return false;
};
if (e.keyCode == 9 || e.which== 9) {
$("#submit_btn").removeClass('submit1').addClass('submit1after');
};
});
};

Stopping enter key submitting also stops enter key in multi line text edit

There are lots of solutions on the web for stopping the enter key from submitting a form. Most commonly to use <body onkeypress = ...
But these seem to have the undesired side effect of stopping the enter key working in a multi-line text box. Does anyone know of a way around this, so the enter key will still work in a multi-line text box?
Thanks,
AJ

<script language="Javascript">
document.onkeydown = function() {
if (event.keyCode == 13) {
if (document.activeElement.tagName.toLowerCase () != "textarea") {
event.preventDefault();
return false;
}
}
}
</script>
Something like this?

You can try the following (with jquery):
$(function(){
$('input:not(textarea)').live('keypress', function(e) {
if (e.which == 13) return false;
if (e.which == 13) e.preventDefault();
});
});
Only input fields are targeted, not textareas.
NON JQUERY
function disableEnterKey(e)
{
var key;
if(window.event)
key = window.event.keyCode;
else
key = e.which;
return (key != 13);
}
And add onKeyPress on all text inputs
<input type="text" name="textIn" onKeyPress="return disableEnterKey(event)"/>
Ref : http://www.bloggingdeveloper.com/post/Disable-Form-Submit-on-Enter-Key-Press.aspx