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Enter Submits

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MUST: Enter submits focused text input

When a text input is focused, Enter should submit the form if it's the only control

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Why it matters

Users expect pressing Enter in a form field to submit the form. This is a fundamental web convention that improves efficiency and meets user expectations. For single-input forms like search boxes or login fields, this should work from any input. For multi-field forms, Enter should submit when focus is on the last input.

References

Built by Gleb Stroganov, design engineer at Evil Martians.

The rules come from other people's skills and guidelines — Vercel, Rauno Freiberg, @Ibelick, impeccable, Emil Kowalski, Tailwind, RAMS — each one credited on the Sources page. The work here is extraction and wiring: every rule is pulled into one corpus, given a good and a bad example you can operate, a MUST/SHOULD/NEVER rule an agent can paste, and a link back to where it came from.