Angular-UI $dialog and form submit on enter key

I believe it's because your "CLOSE" button, is not set to type="button", and I THINK that's the first element that has focus, so when pressing enter, you are entering that button, which by default, will submit the form. Add type="button" and that should solve it.

Also for the record, the latest version of angular material has md-button automatically add type="button" by default (unless you specify type="submit") to avoid this type of situation

To answer my own question. Buttons seems to default to submit(?) and if I explicitly set them to type="button" then they will not trigger postback when pressing enter in an form input field.

<form>
     <input type="text" ... />
     <button type="button" ng-click=...>Cancel</button>
     <button type="submit" ng-click=...>OK</button>
</form>

this way, pressing the enter key in the input field will trigger the ng-click for the OK button.

And as you html hackers have already understood, this had nothing to do with dialogs nor angularjs really, it was a html form issue and my lack of web skills...