Default Button in Web Page

[Bob Mixon]

All,

This question, I hope, has a simple answer. I have a .net web page,
basically a form. Included on this form are a number of text boxes and a
few buttons. As one would expect with a form, when the focus is in a text
box and the user presses the <Enter> key, one of the buttons is pressed. In
my form, I don't want that to happen. I don't want any button to be pressed
under these circumstances. Can someone tell me how to accomplish this?

Thank you in advance for all the help!

Sincerely,
Bob

 

[Ken Cox [Microsoft MVP]]

Check this?

DefaultButtons Control

"This non-visual control allows you to assign a button to the
"enter-pressed" clientside event of input controls. "

http://www.metabuilders.com/Tools/DefaultButtons.aspx

 

[Steve C. Orr [MVP, MCSD]]

You can intercept the client side enter keypress event of the text box and
then click do what you want using javascript code.
Here's a good example:
http://www.kamp-hansen.dk/pages/showdoc.asp?id=28&menuid=21&menuid=18

You could also try using this free control.
http://www.metabuilders.com/tools/DefaultButtons.aspx

And here's a good article on the subject:
http://www.allasp.net/enterkey.aspx

 

[Martin Rosenthal]

I tried it with the following piece of code:

Page.RegisterHiddenField("__EVENTTARGET", myButton.ClientID);

This just works fine. But if the focus is on a Radio Button it does no
longer work. Why is that?

Thank you in advance for your help!

Sincerely, Martin

 

[Bob Mixon]

Ken -- I used those controls last year. Very nice.

But that is not what I am wanting to do. I do not want any button to be automatically pressed when a user is in a text box, and they press the <Enter> key.

Bob