Clean way to prevent enter button submitting a form

I've seen a lot of Javascript solutions to do this, but I'm sure there must be an easier way.

I have a really simple form - one multiline textbox and a submit button. I want the user to be able to submit "formatted" text (i.e. like an email, with paragraphs, new lines etc)

However, when the user hits Enter to put in a carriage return it submits the form.

I'm there there must be a property or something that controls this, as this must be a common issue. Javascript as a solution seems a bit too complex.

Did u try this? -

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You could set the [DefaultButton][1] on the Form or the Panel surrounding your TextBox to an invisible(display:none) Button. On this way you have full control what happens when user hits enter-key without (browser-dependent) Javascript. If you don't handle its onclick-event, the enter-key will be suppressed.

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The following code solved my issue:

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<script type="text/javascript">
//Stop Form Submission of Enter Key Press
function stopRKey(evt) {
var evt = (evt) ? evt : ((event) ? event : null);
var node = (evt.target) ? evt.target : ((evt.srcElement) ? evt.srcElement : null);
if ((evt.keyCode == 13) && (node.type == "text")) { return false; }
}
document.onkeypress = stopRKey;
</script>

Put this in the master page or just in the pages that you want.

Set the **UseSubmitBehavior** property on the **submit button** to **FALSE**. (found the solution [here][1])


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In HTML front end just replace body tag with body onkeydown = "return (event.keyCode!=13)

Use Submit behavior didn't work for me but this

$(function () {
$(window).keydown(function (e) {
if (e.keyCode == 13) {
e.preventDefault();
return false;
}
});
})
worked for me

Similar to the answer of Max, but showing complete code:

function EnterKeyFilter() {
if (window.event.keyCode == 13) {
event.returnValue = false
event.cancel = true
}
}
window.addEventListener('keydown', EnterKeyFilter)
</script>

Also similar to other answers, of course, otherwise it wouldn't work, but possibly simpler.