Hi all, could use some ideas on how to fix a problem in ASP.NET - Web Forms.

We use masterpages that have our page navigation and now are adding a sub-menu to be displayed on every page. In the sub menu I put a quick search that includes a text box and a command button named "btnGo".

My problem is, now on "enter" of every page no matter what control you are in it submits "btnGo" and not whichever command button is in the form on the page.

I need the "btnGo" to submit when clicked or when "enter" is pressed when the co-responding text box has focus, and the command button on the page to submit on enter when anything else has focus like it did before I added the control to the master page.

This sounds easy enough to fix, I am finding a lot of involved javascript functions that I could use but I figured I'd put some feelers out to see if anyone had any ideas.

Thank you!

I think you answered your own question....   In the search textbox's OnBlur, check if it has a value and then set the focus on btnGo.

For other controls in the page, there is a default button property you can set.  

Thank you for your help.

If I change the focus on the onBlur wont the textbox lose the focus and therefore the user will not be able to complete typing?

 Also, what is the property name? I think if I have to change a property for all the other controls I will be stuck changing hundreds of controls as I would have to do it on each page that incorporates our masterpage. Is there a better way to do this?

I believe if you wrap a bunch of controls in a Panel, the Panel itself has a property for the ID of the default button you want to set.