I have an aspx page that postsback when it should not. there are two text boxes, two listboxes and two buttons on the page. if at any-point the enter key is pressed the firs
I would prefer the second if i wanted to prevent Postbacks on Enter completely.
Only put this on you ASP.Net TextBox control:
<asp:TextBox ID="TextBox1" runat="server"
onkeydown = "return (event.keyCode!=13);" >
</asp:TextBox>
Use the below code to disable enter key causing postback. This piece of code will block the enter key in all browsers 4.0 above, except when enter is pressed in a Textarea or on the Submit button itself.
<script language="JavaScript">
var nav = window.Event ? true : false;
if (nav) {
window.captureEvents(Event.KEYDOWN);
window.onkeydown = NetscapeEventHandler_KeyDown;
} else {
document.onkeydown = MicrosoftEventHandler_KeyDown;
}
function NetscapeEventHandler_KeyDown(e) {
if (e.which == 13 && e.target.type != 'textarea' && e.target.type != 'submit') {
return false;
}
return true;
}
function MicrosoftEventHandler_KeyDown() {
if (event.keyCode == 13 && event.srcElement.type != 'textarea' &&
event.srcElement.type!= 'submit')
return false;
return true;
}
</script>
<body onkeydown = "return (event.keyCode!=13)">
are you using jQuery?
if so:
$(document).keypress(function(e)
{
if(e.keyCode === 13)
{
e.preventDefault();
return false;
}
});
This is default behavior of a web application, you could take one of the tutorials that you found and hide that behavior, by simply abandoning the submit.