As a web developer of questionable frontend skills, it kinda looks like something you’d do as a band-aid solution if you had no idea how forms work or how to suppress their default events, which do happen to include the enter key being pressed. Really wild to go about it that route, whatever the intention was lol.
Edit: While typing my other response down this comment thread, I realized for this to happen the developer must have actually suppressed the event correctly so it’s even weirder they chose to handle it like this
So a form is basically a group of fields, think name, email and whatnot. By default, whenever you press enter in one of those, the browser takes whatever content is in the fields and follows some steps but the end result is it reloads the entire page. Nowadays that’s not what you want 99% of the time but it’s still the default behavior, so you have to instruct the browser not to do so by adding a couple lines of code. Whoever programmed this particular website then thought to inform the user that wasn’t going to work on top of presumably suppressing the original behavior.
As a web developer of questionable frontend skills, it kinda looks like something you’d do as a band-aid solution if you had no idea how forms work or how to suppress their default events, which do happen to include the enter key being pressed. Really wild to go about it that route, whatever the intention was lol.
Edit: While typing my other response down this comment thread, I realized for this to happen the developer must have actually suppressed the event correctly so it’s even weirder they chose to handle it like this
This is what happens, if someone angers the web dev 😜
Probanly didn’t get paid or contradicting instructions.
How do forms work and how do you suppress their default events?
https://www.w3schools.com/html/html_forms.asp https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Event/preventDefault
To be fair, whoever wrote this didn’t even know how quotation marks work grammatically.
So a form is basically a group of fields, think name, email and whatnot. By default, whenever you press enter in one of those, the browser takes whatever content is in the fields and follows some steps but the end result is it reloads the entire page. Nowadays that’s not what you want 99% of the time but it’s still the default behavior, so you have to instruct the browser not to do so by adding a couple lines of code. Whoever programmed this particular website then thought to inform the user that wasn’t going to work on top of presumably suppressing the original behavior.
Almost need to spend as much time learning the norms of modern web development as you do learning the syntax and behavior of Javascript.