this is a little bizarre to me...

is it just my stupidity, or is it that the regular old html form element <input type="text"> almost always submits the form when the <return> key is pressed?

i was always under the impression that (at least in netscape), the focus would merely shift to the next form element on the page, rather than actually submitting the form. The pages in question are 'straight' html, using a plain old stylesheet and some javascript rollovers, but no other wacky .js code. This behaviour occurs on both linux netscape 4.75 and KDE2.1 konqueror (which is a tres excellent browser IMHO...).

Could someone please explain this behaviour, and/or describe how i might turn it off?

thanks, d_i_r_t_y

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