Question

I have an ASP.NET page that contains a form and a button. In order to use the OnKeyPress and a javascript function (to stop the user from using the enter key and without adding a FilteredTextBoxExtender) attribute I had to change the <asp:Textbox> to an <input> with type="text".

Is this considered bad practice? Or are there valid situtations where should be used?

To ensure this question isn’t subjective – are there any other ways to prevent the user using the enter key when typing in an ASP.NET textbox? (without putting code in the code behind)

Answer 1

You can add JavaScript to <asp:TextBox />. You can either attach the JavaScript using the ClientID of the control, or you can add it in the codebehind using

MyTextBox.Attributes.Add(“onKeyPress”, “myJavaScriptFunction()”);