Submitting a form on 'Enter' with jQuery?

$('.input').keypress(function (e) {
  if (e.which == 13) {
    $('form#login').submit();
    return false;    //<---- Add this line
  }
});

Check out this stackoverflow answer: event.preventDefault() vs. return false

Essentially, "return false" is the same as calling e.preventDefault and e.stopPropagation().

In addition to return false as Jason Cohen mentioned. You may have to also preventDefault

e.preventDefault();

Don't know if it will help, but you can try simulating a submit button click, instead of directly submitting the form. I have the following code in production, and it works fine:

    $('.input').keypress(function(e) {
        if(e.which == 13) {
            jQuery(this).blur();
            jQuery('#submit').focus().click();
        }
    });

Note: jQuery('#submit').focus() makes the button animate when enter is pressed.

Return false to prevent the keystroke from continuing.

Is there any reason you have to hook and test for the enter key?

Couldn't you simply add a

<input type="submit" /> 

to your form and have it naturally be submitted when enter is pushed? You could even then hook the form's onsubmit action and call a validation function from there if you wanted...

You could even use the onsubmit as a test to see if your form is being submitted, but it won't work if you call form.submit().