hey bohdan,
thanks, works fine!
dirk
On 30 Jan., 11:51, Bohdan Ganicky <bohdan.gani...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> just stick with the submit event. It's fired either when user presses
> Enter or clicks the submit button:
>
> $("#searchForm").submit(function() {
> var url = 'http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos?q='+ $
> ('#searchText').val() + '&alt=json-in-script&callback=showMyVideos&max-
> results=7&format=5';
> $.getScript(url);
>
> return false;
>
> });
>
> --
> Bohdan
>
> On Jan 30, 11:25 am, dirk w <dirkwendl...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> > hello,
> > i've a text inpput field and a button. if you click on the button a
> > java script gets called (and all works fine) but if you type some text
> > and push the enter button than the whole page gets reloaded on the
> > form submit. i know how to prevent the browser to reload the whole
> > page (by catching the enter button action) but i don't know how to
> > make it do the same like pressing the submit button:
>
> > # HTML
> > <form id="searchForm" action="">
> > <input type="text" name="searchText" id="searchText" value=""
> > size="50" maxlength="50"/>
> > <input type="button" name="searchButton" id="searchButton"
> > class="button buttonText" value="Search" />
> > </form>
>
> > # JS
> > $("form:first").submit(function()
> > {
> > return false;
> > /* INSTEAD OF DOING NOTHING THIS SHOULD DO THE SAME
> > THAN THE FOLLOWING ACTION */
> > });
>
> > // fire the search when people click on the search button
> > $("#searchButton").click(function()
> > {
> > var url = 'http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos?q='+
> > $('#searchText').val() +
> >
> > '&alt=json-in-script&callback=showMyVideos&max-results=7&format=5';
>
> > $.getScript(url);
>
> > });
>
> > your help is much appreciated. i really love jquery, especially
> > because of it's community, never got so great responses than in this
> > user group.
>
> > thanks in advance!
> > dirk
