Enter Key Hint

Category: User input
Type: New or changed feature
Status: Enabled by default (Chrome 77)
Intent stage: Evaluate readiness to ship

Summary

The enterkeyhint content attribute is an enumerated attribute that specifies what action label (or icon) to present for the enter key on virtual keyboards. This allows authors to customize the presentation of the enter key in order to make it more helpful for users.

Motivation

To be able to build rich applications that customize the enter key.

Standards & signals

Specification: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/interaction.html#input-modalities:-the-enterkeyhint-attribute
Firefox: Positive — https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/input#attr-mozactionhint was shipped this behind an alternate name before standardization.
Safari: Positive
Web developers: No signals
Tracking bug: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=634330

Docs: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/interaction.html#input-modalities:-the-enterkeyhint-attribute

Samples: http://output.jsbin.com/mukira

Explainers: https://dtapuska.github.io/enterkeyhint/

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