Assign specific keyboard shortcut to submit question

Question

Hi Guys,

I have a long data entry project, so, i need the Enter button to automatically submit the page in the survey link instead of moving with the mouse to the next button..

is that possible? Thank you

Comments

I believe this is already the behavior of some question types (e.g., single-line open-end questions).  Is there a specific question type you want to add this behavior to?

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You're right, I tried it on a single-line open ended question and it worked, but I want this to be a natural behavior in numeric, single, and multiple choices questions also (the whole page to be more specific) (in other words, I need to the Enter button to work exactly as the Next/Submit button)

Answer 1

Try adding this to your survey's HTML head:

<script>
$(document).keypress(function(e){
    if (e.which == 13) {
        SSI_SubmitMe();
    }
})
</script>

Or this version that won't trip on multiline text elements:

<script>
$(document).keypress(function(e){
    if (e.which == 13 && !$(e.target).is('textarea')) {
        SSI_SubmitMe();
    }
})
</script>

Comments

This is exactly what I had in my mind, Thank you Zachary!

Answer 2

Maybe this piece of code helps you. I found it in the Sawtooth Library -> Tricks-> AutoSubmit:

<script>
//The code below will submit the page when a radio button is selected.
function SSI_CustomGraphicalRadiobox(GraphicalRadioObj, InputObj)
{
       SSI_SubmitMe();
}
</script>