default button on form

[Bratislav Jevtic]

hi,

how to make some push button default on the form? for instance, I've got 2
buttons (Submit, Cancel). submit is on the left, cancel on the right side.
on enter key pressed, cancel button is processed - wrong. so, how to make a
button default (when one presses ENTER then it's processed onClick event)?

thanks,
bj

 

[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

 

[Chris Jackson]

From MSDN:

When there is more than one INPUT type=submit in the same form, pressing
enter submits the form using the first INPUT type=submit, unless another
INPUT type=submit has focus. When another INPUT type=submit has focus,
pressing enter submits the form using that INPUT type=submit.

If you don't like this behavior, you can use JavaScript to trap the
OnKeyPress event, and if it is the enter key (13), fire the click method of
the button you want to be the default.