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Answer 1

+2 A:

use OnKeyDown handler on <body> tag of your page. The javascript code should be:

if (window.event.keyCode == 13) 
{
    event.returnValue=false; 
    event.cancel = true;
}

Using JavaScript to prevent or trigger form submission when ENTER is hit http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/forms/enter.html

Robert Harvey 2009-09-24 18:42:28

Answer 2

+4 A:

You can set the button's UseSubmitBehavior = "false"

David Stratton 2009-09-24 18:52:39

That does indeed produce the behaviour needed: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.web.ui.webcontrols.button.usesubmitbehavior.aspx

Zhaph - Ben Duguid 2009-09-24 18:58:32

Perfect, thank you. Not sure why I couldn't find that answer through Google. I guess I was just asking the wrong question.

Ryan Smith 2009-09-24 19:09:21

Answer 3

+1 A:

Here is what I used to fix this problem.

<form runat="server" defaultbutton="DoNothing">
        <asp:Button ID="DoNothing" runat="server" Enabled="false" style="display: none;" />

Lone Coder 2010-04-16 20:49:47

ASP.NET Canceling the Default Submit Button