Ok...this is odd, I dropped a Login Control on the page. If I put in username and password and hit "enter" it just kicks me out...I "have" to click the login button for it to work. Any idea why?

Thanks,
Rob

I *think* this has to do with control focus. Normally, the desired result when a user clicks the 'Enter' key, is that a form automatically submits but I have ran into the same problem a few times.

My work around was a JavaScript that looked for the enter key to be pressed and just called [form].submit(); to post the form, not sure if that will work for what you are trying to do. (Obviously calling [form].sumbit() is just to easy, you will need to actually raise the buttons click event handler to do any processing on the server inside that event handler)



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I think this has to do with general form posting behavior. It is my understanding that when there is a single "submit" type html form input, pressing [Enter] equates to clicking that one submit. (This might be true for a image submit as well, not sure.) However, when you introduce a second "submit" type input, there is then no default submit clicked, or perhaps the default click is on the other submit. The end result is that the form posts, but with no (or the wrong) clicked input control. Every button on a web form is a submit input so check for other controls on this page.

A possible workaround for this problem is to use a different event for your login control. Instead of using the button click, you could use the username or password textbox OnTextChanged event. the only reason that event would fire would be if the user entered a username and password. Thus you should be able to safely assume that an event on one of those controls was an attempt to login by the user. The "login" button would not even need an event handler. It would serve purely as a method to cause a postback in the event the user didn't just hit [Enter].

-Peter

From a functional standpoint what Peter has suggested will work but remember, the OnTextChanged event will only fire after the control in question has lost focus.

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I guess I wasn't entirely clear...

I am thinking of the server side OnTextChanged event. (Technically, there is no client side "OnTextChange" event, but rather the "onChange" event.)

Instead of using the server side button click, you could use the server side TextChanged event of either the password or username textbox.

-Peter

Sorry to repost..but could someone write what fucntion and where I would put it ? (using VB for my asp pages). I've tried several different places--can't seem to find something I can understand--I don't write hardly any Javascript on my pages---all asp coding.

THanks SO MUCH!
Rob

FINALLY--got it!

Wrap the Login Control in a Panel and set the "DefaultButton" like I did below. I had to also set the DestinatinonPageUrl of the Login.

<asp:Panel ID="Panel1" runat="server" Width="125px" DefaultButton="Login2$LoginButton">

<asp:Login ID="Login2" runat="server" DisplayRememberMe="false" DestinationPageUrl="Admin/addpictures.aspx">
</asp:Login>

</asp:Panel>