HTML Text Input: Avoid submit when enter is pressed

Question

I have an HTML input which is a textfield.
When I am pressing the enter, this will call the submit, which is normal.

Now, I would like to do something else when Enter is clicked on that textBox.

I am trying something like that:

<input type="text" 

       id="first_page"  

       onPaste="" 

       onkeydown="if (event.keyCode == 13) alert('enter')" />

The alert works well but the submit is still done. My page is reloading after that.

Could you help me please.

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Answer 1

write return false; and check it

HTML Text Input: Avoid submit when enter is pressed

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