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Asked: 2026-05-11T00:51:31+00:00

I recently participated a project that replaced a mainframe system with a web (asp.net

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I recently participated a project that replaced a mainframe system with a web (asp.net 2.0, VS2005) system.
The 3270-terminals are still much used and I respect the IMS/CICS/Cobol application designers for their work.

Users like the web application, but one thing they keep ask for is:
Functionkeys and shortcuts that navigates directly to different web forms.

Do you know a way to implement function key shortcuts in asp.net that will be like 3270 function key actions?

We are using asp:menu as a content in master-page, but asp:item does not support the accesskey attribute:

<asp:SiteMapDataSource ID='_siteMapDataSource' runat='server'  ShowStartingNode='False' />  <asp:Menu ID='Menu1' runat='server'  DataSourceID='_siteMapDataSource' Orientation='Horizontal'> </asp:Menu>

Update: 24.jan 09: I liked @John Sheehan answer. Will implement it with the jQuery support in ASP.Net 3.5 SP1

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  1. There is nothing specific to ASP.NET for this since you would need to handle it with JavaScript. The easiest way would be to use a jQuery plugin like js-hotkeys

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