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Asp.net Enter Key to submit form

Asp.net Enter Key to submit form

01 Jun 2024
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Asp.net Enter Key to submit form: An Overview

Asp.net submit form on enter key, but to achieve that you need to follow some set of procedure. In this Tutorial, we'll explain you how to do that. You can try our ASP.NET Certification Training to learn more about other ASP.NET functionalities.

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Introduction

Suppose, you want to press/click submit button on Enter key press or you are trying to post the form on Enter key press. In asp.net, to achieve this functionality we need to set "Defaultbutton" property either in Form or in panel. Let's see how we can do that:

Form DefaultButton Property

<form id="form1" runat="server" defaultbutton="btnSubmit">
<div>
<asp:TextBox ID="txtUserID" runat="server"/> <asp:TextBox ID="txtUserpwd" runat="server"/> <asp:Button ID="btnSubmit" runat="server" OnClick="btnSubmit _Click" Text="Submit"/>
</div>
</form>

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Panel DefaultButton Property

<asp:Panel ID="Panel1" runat="server" defaultbutton="btnSubmit">
<div>
<asp:TextBox ID="txtUserID" runat="server"/> <asp:TextBox ID="txtUserpwd" runat="server"/> <asp:Button ID="btnSubmit" runat="server" OnClick="btnSubmit _Click" Text="Submit"/>
</div>
</asp:Panel > 

Note

  1. We specify the defaultbutton property at the Form level in the form tag when there is only one Submit Button for post back.

  2. We specify the defaultbutton property at the Panel level in the Panel tag when there are multiple Submit Button for post back.

Summary

In this article, I try to explain the default submit behavior of form and panel. I hope you will refer this article for your need. I would like to have feedback from my blog readers. Please post your feedback, question, or comments about this article. To learn more about core concepts of ASP.NET, consider enrolling in our ASP.NET Training.

FAQs

To submit a form in asp.net, you can use <form> tag with <action> attribute. Add the <input  type="submit"> to trigger the submission. Handle the form submission logic within the event handler like 'OnClick' or 'OnSubmit' in server-side of code.

To use  enter key to submit a form, you can add an 'onSubmit' attribute to your <form> tag and specify it with a JavaScript function that will handle form submission.

To turn off enter key in form, you can add an event listener to the form submission event like this:
document.getElementById("yourFormId").addEventListener("submit", function(event) {
  event.preventDefault();
});

To handle form submission errors when using Enter key submission, you should:
  • ensure that the form submission event is intercepted.
  • make sure to catch errors by validating form inputs on submission.
  • always display error messages for clear user feedback.
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Shailendra Chauhan (Microsoft MVP, Founder & CEO at ScholarHat)

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