Button focus

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barry

I was wondering why on a webform when I put the cursor into a textbox the
focus goes to the only button on the form.

thanks
 
barry said:
I was wondering why on a webform when I put the cursor into a textbox the
focus goes to the only button on the form.
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Assuming that the button is of type="submit" then this is a standard event.
If you had more than one form on your page the 'focus' will appear on the
submit button associated with that form. Although it is not really a focus as
such because your focus is actually on the textbox. This allows you to press
enter whilst in the textbox to submit the form.

If you want to avoid that then you could use type="button" instead, but you
will need to created an onClick function to submit the form.
 
thanks
Geoff Willings said:
Assuming that the button is of type="submit" then this is a standard event.
If you had more than one form on your page the 'focus' will appear on the
submit button associated with that form. Although it is not really a focus as
such because your focus is actually on the textbox. This allows you to press
enter whilst in the textbox to submit the form.

If you want to avoid that then you could use type="button" instead, but you
will need to created an onClick function to submit the form.
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