Default key for a button inside the gridview ASP.NET C#

Question

I am trying to assign the Enter key to a button inside of a gridview. Does anyone know how this can be accomplished? Thank you.

Answer 1

You can give the button an id on one of the rendering events of the GridView, and then with jQuery bind the keypress() to a main div that wraps your site, and have it simulate the click() event on the button in your gridview when the 'enter' key (keyCode 13) was detected.

Like this :

$(document).ready(function() {
    $('#mainDivWrapperId').keypress(function(event) {
      if (event.keyCode == '13') {
          $('#buttonId').click();
       }
    });
});

Edited Addition : If you have a button in a gridview, then you just need to catch the 'enter' key press event like I've shown above, and then you can have it trigger the 'click' event of your button.

Like this :

$(document).ready(function() {
    $('#mainDivWrapperId').keypress(function(event) {
      if (event.keyCode == '13') {
          $('#buttonId').trigger('click');
       }
    });
});

Answer 2

actually to make it simple, 1st declare the button on click event handler. 2nd declare a on keydown/keypress event handler for grid view. inside the gridview's keypress/keydown event handler, check for keycode 13 from the event argument. if the event.keycode==13, do button.click(). what ever logic inside the button's click event handler will be processed.