Let's explore two solutions to this problem. First, let us look at using JavaScript. With this solution, each textbox needs to have some JavaScript attached to the onKeyPress JavaScript event. I usually do this in the pageload method in the code-behind.
if (!IsPostBack)
{
txtboxFirstName.Attributes.Add("onKeyPress",
"doClick('" + btnSearch.ClientID + "',event)");
}
Note: You pass into the JavaScript method the button's ClientID so that the JavaScript method can find the button and call its Click method.
Next, we need a JavaScript method called doClick in the ASP.NET form.
<SCRIPT type=text/javascript>
function doClick(buttonName,e)
{
//the purpose of this function is to allow the enter key to
//point to the correct button to click.
var key;
if(window.event)
key = window.event.keyCode; //IE
else
key = e.which; //firefox
if (key == 13)
{
//Get the button the user wants to have clicked
var btn = document.getElementById(buttonName);
if (btn != null)
{ //If we find the button click it
btn.click();
event.keyCode = 0
}
}
}
</SCRIPT>
The next solution is using a Panel control. In this case, the panel is doing all the work.
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<asp:Panel ID="panSearch" runat="server"
DefaultButton="btnSearch" Width="100%" >
<table width="100%">
<tr>
<td>First Name</td>
<td ><asp:TextBox ID="txtboxFirstName"
runat="server" ></asp:TextBox></td>
</tr>
...
