Textbox, button and Enter on keyboard

DDK · Jul 16, 2003

Question (using C# and ASP.NET),

I have a textbox and a buttonClick on my asp.net page. I would
like be able to hit the Enter button on the keyboard and have it do the
same thing as the buttonClick. In other words how do you get Enter button
on the key board to perform the same operation as a button click event.

Any help would be great,
Thanks

D.

Steve C. Orr, MCSD · Jul 16, 2003

You can intercept the client side enter keypress event of the text box and
then click
the correct button 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

Vidar Petursson · Jul 16, 2003

Hi

Basic example... simply say what submitbutton should be clicked onkeydown
event
I think this will work in netscape also but havent tested it....

<html>
<head>
<SCRIPT>
function submitOnEnter(submitBtn) {
var keyCode = document.all ? event.keyCode :evt.which ? evt.which :
evt.keyCode ? evt.keyCode : evt.charcode;
if (keyCode == 13) submitBnt.click();
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<form >
<input type="text" name="myField"
onkeydown="submitOnEnter(this.form.submitBtn1)">
<input type="submit" name="submitBtn1" value="submit1">
<input type="text" name="myField"
onkeydown="submitOnEnter(this.form.submitBtn2)">
<input type="submit" name="submitBtn2" value="submit2">
</form>
</body>
</html>

So if sumbitOnEnter-script is registered and you want to set some field to
use it
myInput.Attributes.Add("onkeydown","submitOnEnter(this.form." + BUTTONNAME +
")");
Where BUTTONNAME is the button (surprise

) to click

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Best Regards
Vidar Petursson
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Textbox, button and Enter on keyboard

DDK

Steve C. Orr, MCSD

Vidar Petursson

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