setting default button

[Richard Roche]

What are the ways to set default (activiated on enter)
status for buttons?

i've tried:
TabIndex
and
Page.RegisterHiddenField("__EVENTTARGET", "cmdWhatever")

but the first button seems to be default always. I must
be missing something.

Thanks for any assistance.

 

[Guogang]

Seems there is no way to use multiple forms in ASP.NET. And there is no easy
way to deal with multiple buttons in a single form.

I found javascript to be helpful in solving this problem:

<input type="text" onkeydown="if(event.keycode==13){targetButton.click();
return false;}"/>

 

[Martha[MSFT]]

Page.RegisterHiddenField("__EVENTTARGET", "ButtonID") should work.
But it works only if you have html button(<input type=submit>) type buttons.
It won't work if you have <asp:Button> objects in your page.

Hope this helps,

 

[Steve C. Orr [MVP, MCSD]]

You can intercept the client side enter keypress event of the text box and
then click 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 good article on the subject:
http://www.allasp.net/enterkey.aspx