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Setting enter key default button when login control and search button on same page!!!

Last post 04-28-2006 8:04 AM by jminond. 6 replies.

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Setting enter key default button when login control and search button on same page!!!

06-24-2005, 9:18 PM

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jtoth55
Joined on 03-22-2005, 12:17 AM
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I have a login control... The default behavior is that if a user enters in their user name and password and then hit enter (rather than clicking the button), it doesn't trigger the login button but triggers my search button on the top of the page instead.

How can I remedy this problem?

Justin Toth
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Re: Setting enter key default button when login control and search button on same page!!!

06-28-2005, 1:25 PM

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Christopher Bowen
Joined on 06-17-2005, 2:15 PM
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Hi Justin,

You could add a Panel control and set the DefaultButton property to the control you wish to receive a click when enter is pressed in one of the Panel's controls. (In addition to Panels, the Form itself also supports a DefaultButton property.) This way, you should be able to "bucket" the controls to cause the correct button to click on enter in each case.

A related article - http://weblogs.asp.net/skoganti/archive/2004/09/20/231695.aspx

Here's a simple Panel-based example (from: http://www.developer.com/net/asp/article.php/10917_3506896_3):

<html>
   <body>
      <form id="Form2" runat="server">
         <asp:Panel ID="Panel1" DefaultButton="Button1" RunAt="server">
            <asp:Button ID="Button1" RunAt="server"/>
         </asp:Panel>
         <asp:Panel ID="Panel2" DefaultButton="Button2" RunAt="server">
           <asp:Button ID="Button2" RunAt="server"/>
         </asp:Panel>
      </form>
   </body>
</html>

Hope this helps!
-Chris

Christopher Bowen
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Re: Setting enter key default button when login control and search button on same page!!!

06-28-2005, 8:12 PM

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jtoth55
Joined on 03-22-2005, 12:17 AM
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Unfortunately, I do not just have button1 and button2. Like I said, I have a Login control, so I am not actually using a button (it is generated when the login control is converted to html.)

Justin Toth
http://tothsolutions.com
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Re: Setting enter key default button when login control and search button on same page!!!

07-04-2005, 5:20 PM

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jtoth55
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Does anyone else have any ideas about this?

Justin Toth
http://tothsolutions.com
http://tothsolutions.com/blog

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07-06-2005, 1:14 PM

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farmas
Joined on 08-05-2002, 8:19 AM
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You could use the Panel solution proposed above by giving the UniqueId of the Login control submit button. For example, if the ID of the Login control is "Login1" then the panel would look like this:

<asp:Panel ID="Panel1" runat="server" Height="50px" Width="125px" DefaultButton="Login1$LoginButton">
            <asp:Login ID="Login1" runat="server">
            </asp:Login>
        </asp:Panel>

If this doesn't suit your needs, you could set the default button by means of JavaScript. Take a look at post http://forums.asp.net/507628/ShowPost.aspx for sample code on how to do this.

Hope it helps,
- Federico

Re: Setting enter key default button when login control and search button on same page!!!

10-27-2005, 9:28 AM

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fischer
Joined on 10-27-2005, 1:22 PM
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This works pretty good. Although I have one scenario when this doesn't work.

I write wrong imput to the login and the validation control tells me I did wrong. I then type the right (or wrong) info and press enter again. This time the defaultbutton somehow was lost and the serchbutton (in my case an imagebutton) in master page is pressed instead.

I have tryed many scenarios to find the error.. thought maybe had anything to do with client validation or something...

Re: Setting enter key default button when login control and search button on same page!!!

04-28-2006, 8:04 AM

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jminond
Joined on 07-21-2003, 6:33 PM
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I found that in my runtime for somereason the loginbutton has that full text... so i needed to do

SetDefaultButton(l.ClientID + "_LoginButton");

Also, i modified the js to use getElementById as most people dont use name attributes anymore.

Jonathan Minond
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