Enter Key

Ganesh Ramamurthy · Nov 15, 2004

Hi Experts,

In my aspx page, I have a textbox, a button and a Header user control. In
the Header Conrol, I have a few ImageButtons. When I type something in the
textbox and press "Enter", the click event of one of the Image button is
getting fired. I dont want this to happen. Insted, I want the click event of
the button to be fired.

Can anybody tell me a way to achieve this.

Thanks in advance
Regards
Ganesh

Jos · Nov 15, 2004

Ganesh said:
Hi Experts,

In my aspx page, I have a textbox, a button and a Header user
control. In the Header Conrol, I have a few ImageButtons. When I type
something in the textbox and press "Enter", the click event of one of
the Image button is getting fired. I dont want this to happen.
Insted, I want the click event of the button to be fired.

Can anybody tell me a way to achieve this.

Thanks in advance
Regards
Ganesh

By default, it's the first button on the page that will be used to handle
the Enter event.

Use client-side JavaScript to overcome this problem:
<body onkeydown="if(event.keyCode == 13)
{document.getElementById('myBtn').click();}">
....
<asp:Button id="myBtn" runat="server" Text="Submit" />

Shiva · Nov 15, 2004

You will have to use client-side JS function to capture the ENTER key and
manually fire the event (call <client_side_button_name>.click()).

Hi Experts,

In my aspx page, I have a textbox, a button and a Header user control. In
the Header Conrol, I have a few ImageButtons. When I type something in the
textbox and press "Enter", the click event of one of the Image button is
getting fired. I dont want this to happen. Insted, I want the click event of
the button to be fired.

Can anybody tell me a way to achieve this.

Thanks in advance
Regards
Ganesh

Steve C. Orr [MVP, MCSD] · Nov 15, 2004

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

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Ganesh Ramamurthy

Jos

Shiva

Steve C. Orr [MVP, MCSD]

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