Hi All

This is sort of an extension of a previous posting of mine but felt that it is worthy of a separate string...

I have a registration form which uses several Wizardsteps. I also have a free text search on the same page. What I would like to do is be able to set the next button within the Wizard to the DefaultButton so that my users can select the Return key to process the form. At the moment the Search button takes precedence which is right for the majority of pages within the site.

Is this possible?

Many thanks

Rit

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Hi Rit,

Take a look here: http://imar.spaanjaars.com/QuickDocId.aspx?quickdoc=374

This explains how to set the default button in a master page.

For your user control, you'll need to use an extra trick: use FindControl on the appropriate part of the wizard, find its Id and then use its UniqueID property to set the default button.

HtH,

Imar
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Imar Spaanjaars
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I am also having this problem... Imar, I have read your excellent article and it was quite helpful. Thank you. I have tried the following in my Page_Load event handler:

        Master.Page.Form.DefaultButton = Wizard1.ActiveStep.FindControl("StartNavigationTem plateContainerID").FindControl("StartNextButton"). UniqueID;

This works for the first step in the wizard but does not for subsequent steps. I have also tried the following with the same results:

        Master.Page.Form.DefaultButton = Wizard1.FindControl("StartNavigationTemplateContai nerID").FindControl("StartNextButton").UniqueID;

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Rit, any luck?

Thanks, BTC

I think the button is called differently in subsequent steps. In the second step of a 4 step wizard, the button is called StartNextButton.

The easiesy way to find out the name is to create a clean, empty wizard with the required number of steps. Run the page and look at the HTML. You'll see the Next button is called StartNextButton. Click Next and look at the HTML again. Now the button is called StartNextButton.

Follow this pattern until you found all the different names for the buttons, and use that name to set the DefaultFocus.

HtH,

Imar
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Imar Spaanjaars
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Author of ASP.NET 2.0 Instant Results and Beginning Dreamweaver MX / MX 2004
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Thanks Imar! You are correct, the Next button has different id's depending on which step you are on... I used the following code in my Page_PreRender method to set the default button:

if (Wizard1.ActiveStep.ID == "FirstStep")
   Master.Page.Form.DefaultButton = "StartNextButton";
else
   if (Wizard1.ActiveStep.ID == "LastStep")
        Master.Page.Form.DefaultButton = "FinishButton";
        else
            Master.Page.Form.DefaultButton = "StepNextButton";

(The button id's have been reduced... I looked at the source for each step to obtain the actual UniqueID)

Thanks again for your help! Your the man!

Great. Glad it worked out....

Imar
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Imar Spaanjaars
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Author of ASP.NET 2.0 Instant Results and Beginning Dreamweaver MX / MX 2004
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