Key press "Enter" does not submit the form

[Andrea Williams]

I've created a simple search form and a submit button. On click of the
button, I have code-behind that runs and fills a datagrid. However, it the
person is focused on one of the other controls and presses the "Enter"
button, my submit button event code doesn't fire so my datagrid is either
empty, or it shows a lot of blank rows. It looks like the submit happened,
but since my code to fill the datagrid is in the submit_click method, it's
not executed.

So how can I get the "Enter" button to execute the event method for the
submit button? Is there a way to handle the key press event and make it run
the submit_click method?

Thanks,
Andrea

 

[Steve C. Orr [MVP, MCSD]]

You can intercept the client side enter keypress event of the text box and
then 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 couple good articles on the subject:
http://www.allasp.net/enterkey.aspx
http://www.aspnetpro.com/features/2004/06/asp200406so_f/asp200406so_f.asp