How to Submit a Form with Control + Enter

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You’ve probably seen it on Twitter, Google+, or Facebook. You’ve got a text box, where you write your status/message and then click a button to submit it. But, if you’re lazy like me, you don’t like to switch to the mouse to click the button. These services help us out by allowing us to press control + enter to submit. Let’s recreate this scenario for our own projects.

Of course, the reason we can’t submit on just enter is because we’ll be using a textarea, so that the user can include line breaks. Normally, the browser will just ignore the control key and add another line break when we hit control + enter, but we’ll intercept this and perform our magic.

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