Enter key to work as a submit button

[Felix_WafyTech]

Hi,

I have a web form with multipe edit boxes and a submit button. When the
enter key is pressed within one of the editboxes I would like the form to be
submitted. How do I achieve this? Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks!
Felix.J

[tdavisjr]

If using Asp.net 2.0 the <form> tag as a defaultButton attribute you
can set that to the ID of the button and when the user presses enter
that button will fire.

[blackstaronline.net]

But that means if you are using a multi-line text area, the user will
not be able to put in "vbcrlf" and you may have lots of pre-mature form
submissions from people using the ENTER key to add a new line.
Jeremy Reid
http://blackstaronline.net/hgtit

[tdavisjr]

blackstaronline.net wrote:

But that means if you are using a multi-line text area, the user will
not be able to put in "vbcrlf" and you may have lots of pre-mature form
submissions from people using the ENTER key to add a new line.
Jeremy Reid
http://blackstaronline.net/hgtit

I would think if you are within a control like the textarea and you
want to go to a new line, pressing enter shouldn't submit the form. I
would only think the form should submit if no form control currently
has focus. Then again, I could be wrong.

[Steven Cheng[MSFT]]

Here are some other articles discussing on provide a default button(use
script with key press event)

http://www.metabuilders.com/tools/DefaultButtons.aspx

http://www.allasp.net/enterkey.aspx

http://www.beansoftware.com/ASP.NET-...Enter-Key.aspx

Hope also helps.

Regards,

Steven Cheng
Microsoft Online Support

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