Re: javascript doesn't work with my button

the browsers default behavior is to submit a form on enter. it picks the
first submit (or the one with the focus) to send as the "clicked" button.
catching the keypress on the button will ony catch a return if the button
has the focus when the enter is pressed. you need to catch keypress at the
body level.

<body onkeypress="handleEnter(event)">

-- bruce (sqlwork.com)



"CharlesA" <CharlesA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thanks Marina....
that's a good point, however I did mention that the event wasn't firing at
all.
so the problem starts before the content of the javascript

I knew this because I'd put an alert() in there and it never fired off...

this was the javaScript
function handleEnter (field, event) {

altert("You are in event code");
var keyCode = event.keyCode ? event.keyCode : event.which ? event.which :
event.charCode;
if (keyCode == 13) {
var i;
for (i = 0; i < field.form.elements.length; i++)
if (field == field.form.elements[i])
break;
i = (i + 1) % field.form.elements.length;
field.form.elements[i].focus();
return false;
}
else
return true;
}

and this was the way I attached it to the button

btnRole.Attributes.Add("onKeyPress","return handleEnter(this, event);");

then I thought , hey presumably the button doesn't have an onKeypress
event

so I did this:

btnRole.Attributes.Add("onClick","return handleEnter(this, event);");

and then it occured to me hey maybe onClick doesn't trap any key
information

I'm flummoxed

Regards and thanks,
CharlesA


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