the ENTER key and <buttons>

Just wondering if someone could confirm this:

it seems that (in FF and Opera at least) when filling out a form pressing enter will go to the button that comes first in the HTML. (...i'm working on a survey that has a "back" button that was before the "continue" button.)


also, do you guys/gals think it's a good idea or bad idea to disable the enter key (by using javascript like this)?

It's a bad idea to work against common browser traits like this, without good reason. I fill out most forms and submit by pressing the Enter key.

Correct me if this is wrong but I think that pressing enter doesn't go to the first button and magically auto-clicks it, but rather it just submits the form. In other words, an 'onclick' event wouldn't fire for any of the buttons. That's something I've not tested it though so it's merely guess work.