Submitting Forms with a Keyboard Shortcut

[Jan-Eimertenbrink]

Description

We received internal feedback that it would be expected behavior to submit a form immediately using a keyboard shortcut when typing in a TextArea.

Suggested shortcuts:

Windows: Ctrl + Enter

Mac: Cmd + Enter

Research: How Others Handle It

This behavior is already implemented in many applications, including GitHub, GitLab, Gmail, Outlook, and more.

GitLab describes it in their styleguide as follows:

A Form should support the "quick submit" behavior, which allows it to be submitted from any control (including Markdown editors) using ⌘ + Enter (or Ctrl + Enter).
Note to developers: The quick submit behavior can be automatically added to a form using the js-quick-submit CSS class implemented in quick_submit.js.

Source: GitLab Style Guide – Quick Submit

Implementation

I suggest we implement Cmd + Enter / Ctrl + Enter as a keyboard shortcut. This would be particularly useful for form inputs like Markdown editors, TextAreas, and code inputs., fields where users expect Enter to create a new line rather than submit the form immediately.