move the <Enter> focus between 2 buttons

[Rocio]

I have a aspx page, with 2 controls (ascx).

Control1 contains a SEARCH button, and textbox to enter the string to
search for.
Control 2 contains a LOGIN button, and 2 text boxes to enter the
username & password to login.
Any user can perform a search, but if he applies for an account, he
can login and performed an enhanced search.

Currently, the SEARCH button responds when the user clicks <Enter>,
which works find if he is doing a search.

But if he has an account and enters his username & passowrd and
presses <Enter> the command goes to the SEARCH button, this case doing
nothing since he did not enter anything to search for.

How can I switch the focus of the <Enter> from SEARCH to LOGIN buttons
in the same page? I'm figuring, when the user focuses in the
txtUserName for example, I would like to change the focus from the
SEARCH button to the LOGIN when he presses <Enter>.

Is this possible? Anyone knows how?

TX! in advance!

 

[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 good article on the subject:
http://www.allasp.net/enterkey.aspx

 

[Rocio Katsanis]

Tx for your reply Steve.
As a matter of fact yesterday I did more research and found your reply
to a similar issue, pointing to the first link as a solution in this
reply.
It worked fine.

Thanks for the other information links as well.

-r