DefaultButton in ASP.NET forms

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What is the best solution of defaultButton and "Enter key pressed" for ASP.NET 2.0-3.5 forms?

Wayne · Accepted Answer · 2008-09-16 01:54:56Z

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Just add the "defaultbutton" attribute to the form and set it to the ID of the button you want to be the default.

<form defaultbutton="button1" runat="server">
    <asp:textbox id="textbox1" runat="server"/>
    <asp:button id="button1" text="Button1" runat="server"/>
</form>

NOTE: This only works in ASP.NET 2.0+

answered Sep 16, 2008 at 1:54

Wayne

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Anatoly Mironov Over a year ago

If you want to bind enter key to a a specific area of your form, add an additional <asp:Panel id="myNewPanel" runat="server" DefaultButton="sendEmailButton">your buttons and textboxes</asp:Panel>

Wayne · Accepted Answer · 2008-09-16 02:22:41Z

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Since form submission on hitting the enter key is a part of life with HTML, you'll have to trap the Enter key using javascript and only allow it to go through when it's valid (such as within textareas). Check out http://brennan.offwhite.net/blog/2004/08/04/the-single-form-problem-with-aspnet/ for a good explanation.

answered Sep 16, 2008 at 2:22

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