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I have a text field with a popup LOV. If I enter a search term in the LOV, and click on the Search button, it works fine. (Minor quibble: it always uppercases the text. But it's a case-insensitive search, and I seem to have no choice in that, so not a big deal.)

Now enter some text in the field and hit return. The result is always no rows returned.

The expected behavior of all HTML-based Forms since ... oh, I'm gonna say, HTML 2 ... is that pressing enter when your focus is on the only text input field of a form is equivalent to submitting the form. That is not being followed here, and it is not obvious to the user that all they have to do is click instead of hitting return. (Or tab to move the focus to the Submit button, and then hit return -- that works, too.)

I've reproduced this in every popup LOV in my application on both Firefox 3.6 and IE 8.

I am unable to find a workaround, short of adding an onclick/alert or big warning box on the opening page warning users that they can't hit enter from the text field. Is there any easy way to address this until it's fixed in a future release? (Without building my own popup LOV, preferably.) Or perhaps a way to display some kind of prompt or message text in the popup LOV, so I can at least put the warning there?

Thanks,
Keith