Postback Issue

dtmoore

I have a form with several textboxes, and several buttons. When focus is on one of the textboxes and I click enter, the page runs the event handler for one of the buttons. I do not want this to happen, When enter is clicked I do not want the page to post back. I tried switching all of my buttons to command buttons, and this does not seem to work. It always runs the same buttons event, and I cannot find any link to this buttons specifically anywhere in the code. Any advice would be great. thanks ~David Moore

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KlytusLord21y ago
If I understand your issue correctly, you will need some javascript on the page to remove the default behavior of the enter key. There are several acripts on the web that let you assign a specific button to trigger when the user hits enter. I know that is not what you want, but it is possible that these same scripts may let you assign the bahavior to no button at all, thus preventing the postback. Just an idea :)
spgilmore21y ago
Perhaps I don't understand correctly, but that's just what webform buttons do. The question isn't what DON'T you want it to do, but what DO you want it to do?