How do stop the Enter button from doing a postback on my ASP.Net page?
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I do have a clientside onclick already. I have put this code in it...
if (window.event.keyCode == 13)
{
event.returnValue=false;
event.cancel = true;
}
But I think that needs to go in a body onclick eventhandler.
Right now the page will postback when the enter button is clicked while in any other input on the page.
sorry I thought you were talking about a button called enter as opposed to the Keyboard enter button. Yes you need the correct event of the body tag:
<body OnKeyPress="return disableKeyPress(event)">
function disableEnterKey(e)
{
var key;
if(window.event)
key = window.event.keyCode; //IE
else
key = e.which; //firefox
return (key != 13);
}
Check out this article for how to add client-side events to a body tag in a master page:
http://forums.asp.net/p/13
I didn't end up using this solution but it is one the is workable.
I finally got the code worked out my my master. Since this is just a small app and I the feature applies to all pages under the "Master" page I worked out the issues I was having with the body tag and ended up with this...
<body onkeydown="javascript:disa
function disableEnterSubmit()
{
if (window.event.keyCode == 13)
{
event.returnValue=false;
event.cancel = true;
}
}
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by: jamesrhPosted on 2009-10-10 at 17:23:15ID: 25544401
Use a regular HTML button rather than an ASP.NET button. Or create a client-side onClick function that prevents submit.