How do disable button selection on a page.

[Lily]

Hi there,
I have several buttons and one datagrid on a page.

Whenever I click on the page anywhere, one of the buttons is selected
(without actually been clicked on), now if I press "Enter" key, the
button's click event got called.

This is a major problem for me!!

I guess this is a feature of ASP.NET. But how could I disable it???
Thanks ahead.

 

[Curt_C [MVP]]

are you trying to stop the button click even from happening or the page
posting back?

 

[KatB]

Lily, I ran into this problem a lot when I first started aspx pages. If
I had buttons and/or text boxes with autopostback = true (when Enter key
is hit), it was hit or miss what event actually fired.

This turned out to be tied to the ORDER of the controls listed in the
HTML. I solved it by creating a tiny button with visible set to false on
the page (in a corner). I always name it btnNeededForEventFiring (so I
would remember what it was for).

The key is then to make sure that this button control comes before any
other event related controls (e.g., buttons or text boxes) in your HTML.

Example:

<asp:button id="btnNeededForEventFiring" style="Z-INDEX: 126; LEFT: 8px;
POSITION: absolute; TOP: 8px" runat="server" Width="1px"
BackColor="Transparent" BorderColor="Transparent" Height="1px"
ForeColor="Transparent"></asp:button>

Hope this helps.
Kat

 

[Lily]

Thanks!!!!!!!!

 

[Lily]

I want click event fire only when been clicked on.