Can't use enter on asp.net form

[Guest]

I have a web form with a listbox and single text box and a single button.
When my users type in the text box and press enter, it doesn't submit. It
refreshes the page and clears the textbox.

Any ideas?

 

[Hermit Dave]

yeah submit is done by onclick of a button or a hyperlink. enter doesnt do
the job (as event args need to be populated with right info so what happens
is it just does a page_load and comes back) and what i tend to do is disable
it altogether.

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Regards,

Hermit Dave
(http://hdave.blogspot.com)

 

[Steven Cheng[MSFT]]

Hi Mark,

Hermit's suggstion is reasonable. The ASP.NET webform need some control to
fire the post back event and not all the controls can fire such event by
default. The "submit button" , "link button" 's click can by default make
the page post back to server. So you need to add a button on the web form
page to let the user post back the page.

In addition, here are some referernce in MSDN on the asp.net's page model
and control events:

#Introduction to ASP.NET and Web Forms
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dndotnet/ht
ml/introwebforms.asp

#Events in ASP.NET Server Controls
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cpguide/htm
l/cpconeventsinwebformscontrols.asp

Hope helps.

Regards,

Steven Cheng
Microsoft Online Support

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[Guest]

I have a button. But many users are used to pressing the enter key after
keying in a password.

 

[Steven Cheng[MSFT]]

Hi Mark,

Thanks for the followup. Based on your further description, I think this is
a normal behavior of the web page. The asp.net page didn't have the
"default button" feature(which exist in windows form application) by
default.

As for how to make a Button control as the default button on a asp.net
webform page, there is no buildin means for setting default button. We can
use javascript code to let a certain button be clicked when we press
"enter" key on a textbox. Here are some tech articles and former threads
discussing on the same question:


http://www.kamp-hansen.dk/pages/showdoc.asp?id=28&menuid=21&menuid=18

http://www.metabuilders.com/tools/DefaultButtons.aspx

http://www.allasp.net/enterkey.aspx


http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&threadm=CyvtFHT8DHA.1152%
40cpmsftngxa07.phx.gbl&rnum=1&prev=/groups%3Fhl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26
q%3Denter%2Bkey%2Bsteven%2Bcheng

Hope helps. Thanks.

Regards,

Steven Cheng
Microsoft Online Support

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[Guest]

Thanks. Setting the Event Target worked. That's all I needed.

 

[Guest]

Hi,

Can you share what you did?

Thnx

Thanks. Setting the Event Target worked. That's all I needed.