# Enter key on a phone search

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- Author: Nana Chon
- Published: 2026-11-10
- Source article: [Enter key on a phone search](https://nanacodesign.com/articles/enter-key-on-a-phone-search)
- Full article access: public
- Topics: Design systems, Design engineering

## Summary

On a phone my site search opened the first result when a reader pressed Enter, because the first result is highlighted before anyone chooses and the keyboard hid the list. Orbition's Search Dialog gained a submit axis: open the result on a desktop, show the results on a phone, where the Search key lowers the keyboard and 3.5 rows come into view instead of 1.

## Key points

- iOS draws the keyboard from the field's attributes. Nike's field asked for the web search keyboard with inputmode and sat in a form; mine set only type, so it got the default keyboard and a plain return key.
- The behaviour went into Orbition first (5.6.47, ADR-377): one axis, submit, with open-result and show-results, defaulting by the Search Dialog's kind, plus the key label, a drag that lowers the keyboard and a list that fits above it.
- Orbition 5.6.50 (ADR-378) lets a brand scope paint the hit marks with the primary action fill and inverse text, so the site's hits read as pink chips while the query row stays neutral.

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