The expected behaviour on enter in a form seems to be undefined in the HTML 4.01 Specification while the HTML 5 specification says it should be the first submit button in the form.
Internet Explorer (IE) highlights the first button in the form when the form has focus by adding a proprietary border or something. Other browsers do not add such a visual clue.
I’d like to use another button as the default and style this button so all browsers will provide a visual clue that it is the default button. (We’re using ASP.NET which uses one form per page, and so it’s hard to design the pages so that the default button always comes first.)
While I can easily accomplish this with javascript and css in most browsers, I’m having trouble making IE stop highlighting the first button.
Is there any way to tell IE to NOT highlight the first submit-button or to highlight a different button? Or is there some other solution that I’ve missed?
On your asp.net button control, set
useSubmitBehavior="false". That renders the html as a button rather than a submit.