I have a very simple AJAX form that asks for an email address and sends it to me after submitting.

How can I can I get the form to submit when hitting the enter key?

This runs when user clicks submit button:

<script type=text/javascript>

    $(document).ready(function () {

        $(#submit_btn).click(function () {

            // Get input field values:

            var user_email = $('input[name=email]').val();



            // Simple validation at client's end

            // We simply change border color to red if empty field using .css()

            var proceed = true;

            if (user_email === ) {

                $('input[name=email]').css('border-color', 'red');

                proceed = false;

            }



            // Everything looks good! Proceed...

            if (proceed) {

                /* Submit form via AJAX using jQuery. */

            }

        });



        // Reset previously set border colors and hide all message on .keyup()

        $(#contact_form input, #contact_form textarea).keyup(function () {

            $(#contact_form input, #contact_form textarea).css('border-color', '');

            $(#result).slideUp();

        });

    });

</script>

I know this question has been asked before -- I'm having trouble getting the keypress function to work.

I tried this to no avail:

$(#contact_form).keypress(function (e) {

    if ((e.keyCode == 13) && (e.target.type != textarea)) {

        e.preventDefault();

        // Get input field values

        var user_email = $('input[name=email]').val();



        // Simple validation at client's end

        // We simply change border color to red if empty field using .css()

        var proceed = true;



        if (user_email === ) {

            $('input[name=email]').css('border-color', 'red');

            proceed = false;

        }



        // Everything looks good! Proceed...

        if (proceed) {

            /* Submit form via AJAX using jQuery. */

        }

    }

});

The form is #contact_form.

Any help would be would appreciated…