programmatic partial submit

Question

my form consists of following elements:

icefaces text field to enter search criteria.
icefaces command button (find) to make partial submit and populate a div with new list of matched users.
other two icefaces text fields, when submitting whole form i need their values.

Requirement: i want when user press enter in the text input field, that find button gets clicked (when the button gets clicked by mouse it makes partial submit automatically)

so here's what i tried:

<ice:inputText id="recipient" value="#{myBean.searchValue}" size="60" 
                     onkeydown="handleEnter(event,this.form);" >
                </ice:inputText>

                <ice:commandButton id="find" value="Find"  action="#{myBean.findEmployees}" partialSubmit="true"
                     >
                    <f:ajax execute="@this" render="employees" />
                </ice:commandButton>

the JS method:

function handleEnter(event,form){

   if (event.keyCode == 13){
    document.getElementById(form.name+':find').click(); 
   }
}

the generated ice command button:

 <input type="submit" value="Find" style="width: 60px;"     onfocus="setFocus(this.id);"     onclick="iceSubmitPartial(form, this, event);return false;" onblur="setFocus('');" name="myForm:find" id="myForm:find" class="iceCmdBtn findButton">

ISSUE: what happens is the when user press enter, find button is invoked, but whole form gets submitted, so a required validation error appears for the other two text fields.

please advise why whole form is getting submitted, and how to handle such issue.

I'm not sure what HTML exactly an `` generates, but try `onclick()` instead of `click()`. It will then only fire the button's `onclick` function instead of virtually clicking the button. — BalusC, Jan 04 '12 at 17:50
@BalusC, onclick gives same behavior, i added generated code of ice command button. — Mahmoud Saleh, Jan 05 '12 at 12:31

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 10 '12 at 11:35

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to get the enter button working fine with partial submit, i have to remove the 'required=true' tag from the inputs and make the validation with JS.

answered Jan 10 '12 at 11:35

Mahmoud Saleh

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score -1 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 24 '15 at 14:22

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set immediate = true on the button

answered Jul 24 '15 at 14:22

Paul

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Please explain your answer. – Prudhvi Jul 24 '15 at 14:24

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