I have a webapp with multiple forms and inside these forms multiple custom made components: input, textarea, selectbox, datepicker, radiobutton, checkbox, … .
I found out that the submit function is fired when pressing the enter key inside a child component of a form tag. Something I don’t want. I want to be able to use the enter key for other things like conforming a selection in a dropdown.
Form example
<template>
<form @submit.prevent="handleLogin">
<fieldset :disabled="isSubmitting" class="space-y-6">
<Input :label="$tc('email', 1)" type="email" id="email" v-model="user.email" :error="errors.email" />
<Input :label="$tc('password', 1)" type="password" id="password" v-model="user.password" :error="errors.password" />
<Select :label="$tc('role', 1)" id="role" :options="roles" displayProperty="display_name" valueProperty="id" v-model="user.role" :error="errors.role" />
<SubmitButton :label="$tc('register', 1)" :submittingLabel="$tc('register_loader', 1)" :isSubmitting="isSubmitting" />
</fieldset>
</form>
</template>
SubmitButton.vue
<button type="submit">{{ isSubmitting ? submittingLabel : label }}</button>
Therefore I’m looking for a way to prevent the default behaviour. Adding a keydown function and checking if the enter key is being pressed inside all the custom components followed by an event.preventDefault()
didn’t do the trick.
A working solution should be to change the type of the button from ‘submit’ to ‘button’ and use an @click but that doesn’t sound like semantic html.
Any other suggestions?