dojo and the enter key

Attaching a listener for the enter key on a form can help a lot from a usability perspective. If your users are more familiar with tabbing through a forms using only keys, asking them to use the mouse just to submit the form can be a little irritating. dojo comes to the rescue with a simple dojoattachevent. All you need to do is add the a dojoAttachEvent to your template file:

dojoattachevent="onkeyup: checkForEnter"

Then, in your widget logic, all you need to do is:

checkForEnter: function(keyEvent) {
 if(keyEvent.keyCode == 13) {
  if(!dojo.isFF) {
   if(this._validateForm()) {
    this._createAccount();
   }
  }
 }
}

Oddly enough, Firefox is able to recognize the enter key and submits the form all by itself.

dojo campus has quite a few keys defined so you can capture a lot of what your users are trying to achieve with your web application.