ASP.NET Link Enter key with buttons?

Question

I stumbled across a little problem with an ASP.NET Web Application.

I got a couple buttons on my page that I want to access by pressing my Enter key (Depending on which TextBox is focused).

Googled helped me, I thought, but no.

This is what I found:

tbEmail.Attributes.Add("onkeydown", "if(event.which || event.keyCode){if ((event.which == 13) || (event.keyCode == 13)) {document.getElementById('" + btRegister.UniqueID + "').click();return false;}} else {return true}; ");

Source

This does not seem to work, it still presses another button that I do not want to be pressed at this moment.

Any suggestions?

Answer 1

It looks like you're using Web Forms.

You can wrap what you're doing inside of a Panel and set the DefaultButton property inside of the panel.

<asp:Panel ID="LoginPanel" runat="server" DefaultButton="btLogin">
  <asp:TextBox ID="txtUser" runat="server" />
  <asp:TextBox ID="txtPass" runat="server" />
  <asp:Button ID="btLogin" runat="server">Login</asp:Button>
</asp:Panel>

When the user has entered data in either txtUser and txtPass and then hit the Enter key, they will trigger the button btLogin.

Answer 2

Don't try and use the JavaScript - put your form inside an <asp:Panel> and set the DefaultButton property to be the id of your button.