How to handle “Go”/”Enter” keyboard button Ionic2

I did like this:

<ion-input type="text" [(ngModel)]="username" (keyup.enter)="handleLogin()"></ion-input>

And:

handleLogin() {
    // Do your stuff here
}

For my case, I’m not getting next button within a form for both Android and IOS. I’m only getting done. so I handled done as a next by using following directive.

import { Directive, HostListener, Output, EventEmitter, ElementRef, Input } from '@angular/core';
import { Keyboard } from '@ionic-native/keyboard';

@Directive({
  selector: '[br-data-dependency]' // Attribute selector
})
export class BrDataDependency {
  @Output() input: EventEmitter<string> = new EventEmitter<string>();
  @Input('br-data-dependency') nextIonInputId: any = null;

  constructor(public Keyboard: Keyboard,
    public elementRef: ElementRef) {
  }

  @HostListener('keydown', ['$event'])
  keyEvent(event) {
    if (event.srcElement.tagName !== "INPUT") {
      return;
    }

    var code = event.keyCode || event.which;
    if (code === TAB_KEY_CODE) {
      event.preventDefault();
      this.onNext();
      let previousIonElementValue = this.elementRef.nativeElement.children[0].value;
      this.input.emit(previousIonElementValue)
    } else if (code === ENTER_KEY_CODE) {
      event.preventDefault();
      this.onEnter();
      let previousIonElementValue = this.elementRef.nativeElement.children[0].value;
      this.input.emit(previousIonElementValue)
    }
  }

  onEnter() {
    console.log("onEnter()");
    if (!this.nextIonInputId) {
      return;
    }

    let nextInputElement = document.getElementById(this.nextIonInputId);

    // On enter, go to next input field
    if (nextInputElement && nextInputElement.children[0]) {
      let element: any = nextInputElement.children[0];
      if (element.tagName === "INPUT") {
        element.focus();
      }
    }
  }

  onNext() {
    console.log("onNext()");
    if (!this.nextIonInputId) {
      return;
    }

    let nextInputElement = document.getElementById(this.nextIonInputId);

    // On enter, go to next input field
    if (nextInputElement && nextInputElement.children[0]) {
      let element: any = nextInputElement.children[0];
      if (element.tagName === "INPUT") {
        element.focus();
      }
    }
  }
}

const TAB_KEY_CODE = 9;
const ENTER_KEY_CODE = 13;

How to use?

 <form [formGroup]="loginForm" (ngSubmit)="login(loginForm.value)">
      <ion-input br-data-dependency="password" type="text" formControlName="username" placeholder="USERNAME" (input)="userNameChanged($event)"></ion-input>
      <ion-input id="password" password type="password" formControlName="password" placeholder="PASSWORD"></ion-input>
      <button submit-button ion-button type="submit" block>Submit</button>

</form>

Hope this help someone!!

Edit: Let me know if you are abled to show next button for the first input box?

The right way to do that might be to use Ionic2 forms. I’v found this: https://blog.khophi.co/ionic-2-forms-formbuilder-and-validation/

Otherwise – If you “just want the “Enter” event handler” this is quite complex (!) and not out of the box as you might be thinking:

HTML:

<ion-input id="myInput" #myInput type="submit" [(model)]="textValue" (input)="setText( $event.target.value )" placeholder="Send Message ..." autocorrect="off"></ion-input>

TS:

...
declare let DeviceUtil: any;
...
export class Component_OR_PAGE
{
    public textValue: string;
    @ViewChild( 'myInput') inputElm : ElementRef;
    @HostListener( 'keydown', ['$event'] )
        keyEvent( e )
        {
            var code = e.keyCode || e.which;
            log.d( "HostListener.keyEvent() - code=" + code );
            if( code === 13 )
            {
                log.d( "e.srcElement.tagName=" + e.srcElement.tagName );
                if( e.srcElement.tagName === "INPUT" )
                {
                    log.d( "HostListener.keyEvent() - here" );
                    e.preventDefault();
                    this.onEnter();
                    DeviceUtil.closeKeyboard();
                }
            }
        };

    ...

    setText( text )
    {
        log.d( "setText() - text=" + text );
        this.textValue = text;
    }

    onEnter()
    {
        console.log( "onEnter()" );
        this.inputText.emit( this.textValue );
        this.textValue = "";
        // ionic2 beta11 has issue with data binding
        let myInput = document.getElementById( 'myInput' );
        let innerInput: HTMLInputElement = <HTMLInputElement>myInput.children[0];
        innerInput.value = "";
    }
}

JS:

DeviceUtil =
{
    closeKeyboard: function()
    {
        cordova.plugins.Keyboard.close();
    }
}