How to trigger HTML button click when pressing Enter in a text box with JavaScript?

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Somewtimes, we want to trigger HTML button click when pressing Enter in a text box with JavaScript

In this article, we’ll look at how to trigger HTML button click when pressing Enter in a text box with JavaScript

To trigger HTML button click when pressing Enter in a text box with JavaScript, we call click on the button.

For instance, we write

document.getElementById("addLinks").onkeypress = (e) => {
  if (e.keyCode === 13) {
    document.getElementById("linkadd").click();
  }
};

to select the text box with document.getElementById("addLinks").

Then we set its onkeypress property to a function that’s called when we press a key when focus on the text box.

In it, we check if enter is pressed with e.keyCode === 13.

If it’s true, then we click the button with document.getElementById("linkadd").click();.

To trigger HTML button click when pressing Enter in a text box with JavaScript, we call click on the button.