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Sabinede-Kamps1's avatar
Sabinede-Kamps1
Community Member
11 years ago

Prevent enter key from submitting text entry for evaluation

Hi, I am having a problem with the text entry. I would like the learner to be able to type a longer text into the text entry box. When he presses 'enter', a line break should be created within th...
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LeslieMcKerchie
Staff
4 years ago

Hello Vanessa and welcome to E-Learning Heroes. 😊

When there's a data-entry field on a question slide, pressing the Enter key on the keyboard submits your response for evaluation. In other words, pressing the Enter key on the following question slides is the same as clicking the Submit button.

  • Graded—Fill in the Blank
  • Graded—Numeric
  • Survey—Short Answer 
  • Survey—How Many
  • Freeform—Text Entry 

You can press Shift+Enter to add line breaks to short-answer surveys and ungraded freeform text-entry questions when the fields are tall enough to allow multiple lines of text.

Hi Annemarie,

Thanks for the additional information. Does Shift+Enter work for you?

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