the mystery of a default button

[Guest]

This is quite serious - for a beginner...
No property setting for a default button? I just want a button on a search
page to automatically be pressed when I hit the return/enter key.

Somehow I did it with one of my 2 buttons, (but I don't know how)
one of the buttons (cmdClear) decided on its own to be the default button -
instead of the cmdSearchMember button - so much so that even after searching
and finding 2 other solutions:
1) 'RegisterHiddenField("__EVENTTARGET", "cmdSearchMember")
2) Javascript -that ends up with:
SetDefaultButton(Me.txtNAME_ID, cmdSearchMember) in the load event of
the form.

.... the other button (cmdClear) continues to be selected and is
automatically pushed when I hit the enter (return) key.

Please help, I know the solution isn't to grab my code from the
cmdSearchMember button and add it to the cmdClear button - although that is
becoming quite tempting.

 

[Eliyahu Goldin]

If you are in 2.0, you do have property DefaultButton.

In 1.1 the first button on the form is always the default one.

Eliyahu

 

[Guest]

Hi Jonefer,

You do not have to switch the code in your buttons. In ASP.NET 1.1, you may
still create a webpage with more than one section in it; each section can
have the equivalent of a "default" by adding a few lines of JavaScript to
attach the event OnKeyPress of each textbox to trigger a different button's
Click event. For a demo take a look at this sample:
http://www.societopia.net/samples/ASPPage_Buttons.aspx