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Apparently this is wrong

This form has two inputs; a text input named “text” and a submit input named “submit”. Pressing enter while the text field has focus submits the form, but only the text field — the submit button is left behind. If you click the submit button, both fields are properly submitted.

You’d think this would work

Apparently this fantastic bug stems from single-input forms, although there doesn’t really seem to be a lot more information than that on the topic. A logical human, when confronted with this altogether idiotic fact, would attempt to do something like add another input field.

This form is identical to the one above, only with the addition of a hidden field “extra” with a blank value. Pressing enter while in the text field acts similar to above, in that both “extra” and “text” are submitted, while “submit” is not. Again, pressing the submit button resolves this issue.

The ugly hack solution

Instead of a hidden field as in the above example, the “extra” field is a type=”text” that is hidden via CSS. Now look what happens: Pressing enter in the text field submits all three fields, exactly as it should. Functionality is identical when clicking the submit button.