Well I am trying to submit a form by pressing enter but not displaying a submit button. I don't want to get into JavaScript if possible since I want everything to work on all browsers (the only JS way I know is with events).
Right now the form looks like this:
<form name="loginBox" target="#here" method="post">
<input name="username" type="text" /><br />
<input name="password" type="password" />
<input type="submit" style="height: 0px; width: 0px; border: none; padding: 0px;" hidefocus="true" />
</form>
Which works pretty well. The submit button works when the user presses enter, and the button doesn't show in Firefox, IE, Safari, Opera and Chrome. However, I still don't like the solution since it is hard to know whether it will work on all platforms with all browsers.
Can anyone suggest a better method? Or is this about as good as it gets?
Update 2022: Use this instead
<input type="submit" hidden />
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Try:
<input type="submit" style="position: absolute; left: -9999px"/>
That will push the button waaay to the left, out of the screen. The nice thing with this is, you'd get graceful degradation when CSS is disabled.
Update - Workaround for IE7
As suggested by Bryan Downing + with tabindex to prevent tab reach this button (by Ates Goral):
<input type="submit"
style="position: absolute; left: -9999px; width: 1px; height: 1px;"
tabindex="-1" />