ASP.NET - Default button when user hits [Return]

Source :
http://www.utmag.com/September2003/Page3.asp



private void Page_Load(object sender,
    System.EventArgs e)
{
   // This causes the page to associate Enter
   // key with btnSearch click.
   Page.RegisterHiddenField( "__EVENTTARGET",
       "btnSearch" );
}

Note

In VB.NET, this should work, right?

    Private Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load

        'Set default button to btnSearch.
        Page.RegisterHiddenField("__EVENTTARGET", "btnSearch")

    End Sub

I doesn't, though. Any ideas why? (there is certainly more than one textbox on the form, although one of them is yellow for no reason whatsoever.)
Thanks,
Pete.

>> although one of them is yellow for no reason whatsoever
Do you have a Google toolbar?  if so Check the Google Toolbar Options and turn off AutoFill. The toolbar checks for fields that look like likely candidates for autofill and highlights them.  

Clever! Nice one dfiala13. You can have some extra points! I would have wasted days on that, in all likelihood. But do you know why the reason why the above isn't working?

On a similar (completely unrelated!) note, do you how to get rid of all the double spacing on my web forms? It's really annoying, but I want to use flow layout. I'll post extra points outside this q.

>> But do you know why the reason why the above isn't working?
Good question.  I'll see if I can see what's what.

>>double spacing on my web forms
What do you mean?  I use flowlayout all the time.

Well, when I press enter to start a new line, I get large gaps in between each line.

OK, Though it would be nice if were that easy
Reason  Page.RegisterHiddenField( "__EVENTTARGET",
       "btnSearch" );
 won't work because

the script has no idea what to do with it.  If you look at your html source after the page renders you won't see anything referencing it (unless perhaps you have some validators turned on -- but even then it won't work because it will get overwritten in the validation script).

No, you need to do some keycapture in javascript and have it set the event target and tnen call the submit when the enter key is pressed.

The VS designer is throwing <p> tags around each line.  You can either change the default style of the <p> or simply remove them or don't use the designer for entering long text blocks.

Don't know Jscript... This must be a common requirement - surely there's a way to do it?

This should be a different thread, but i guess it's "line-height" that i need to change. But to what value? visual studio is only suggesting 'Normal'.

>>This must be a common requirement - surely there's a way to do it?
There is -- Javascript.  This is all client-side behavior.

You capture the enter key down event and call the form submit. Here's an example...

http://dotnetjunkies.com/WebLog/darrell.norton/archive/2004/03/03/8374.aspx

You can also attempt to set the tab order.  First button in the tab order "usually" gets the default submit

you can change the line height to a value in pixels line-height: 15px.  

I've had a look at that URL before, but left feeling confused. Will it work with imagebuttons? Can you tell me exactly what to do to get it to work in VS.NET with VB.NET? Java confuses the heck out of me, being an MS Access programmer by heart.

That works perfectly. Some points for you my friend:
https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/20946265/Points-for-dfiala13.html

Is there a way to capture "form"-wide events? I'd like to have an application-wide toolbar which uses the function keys as shortcuts. Is this possible, and could it be incorporated with this solution?

I've ballsed up my <P> tags though! I'll have to start again.

davisg090767: that just inserts <P>s, but thanks for telling me about the <br> tag - that gives me a new line with no space.

I'm going to need some help with all this formatting business, especially tags. VB.NET is fine, but I'm finding this web stuff much more fiddly than I'd expected..!

I can't work out how to change the double line-spacing in between the <P></P> tags. I don't want double, but single isn't much use either when a small gap is needed.

I will post another question though.

Thanks for all the help. dfiala13, you know your stuff.

https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/20948439/Formatting-in-flow-layout.html

Thanks for the solution!  It was really helpful.

If you know you want the same default button behavior for all TextBox controls in your page, you can iterate over the Controls.  This takes less typing than adding it manually for all text boxes.  (C#)

            public void SetDefaultButtons( Button button )
            {
                  foreach ( Control control in this.Controls )
                  {
                        if ( control is TextBox )
                        {
                              SetDefaultButton((TextBox)control, button);
                        }
                  }
            }

holding down the shift key in design mode inserts a line-break and not a new paragraph
it works almost all microsoft products, macromedia and a bunch of others, too.

correction: holding down the shift key WHILE YOU HIT ENTER inserts ...

Hi, in relation to the posting by "dfiala13" for this solution mine doesnt work, when im in my textbox i still get a  server roundtrip rather than the javascript function been invoked ?.  i have looked at the source after the page as rendered and the onkeydown attribute has been added suceesfully from C# - onkeydown="fnTrapKD(Datechange)" - so this is ok, but in this function all i have now is an alert statement and even that doesnt get triggered, its like the page/browser is overriding the added attribute. any ideas
steve

If you ahve a panel on the page it has a DefaultButton you can set

This is the simple way to do this: In your VB.NET code just add this code below to your Page_Load subroutine.

Me.frm.DefaultButton = Me.but.ID

Where 'frm' is the name of your form in the your ASPx page and 'but' is the name of your button.

For other newbs  like me if your not working with an imagebutton make sure you change your routine to the correct button type.

example below

Private Sub SetDefaultButton( txt as TextBox, defaultButton as Button )
 txt.Attributes.Add("onkeydown", "fnTrapKD(" + defaultButton.ClientID + ",event)");
End sub

Worked Great, Thanks for your hard work!!