Comments on: Trapping Enter key in Windows Forms TextBox

By: Róbert Badí Baldursson

Róbert Badí Baldursson — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 13:24:24 +0000

This didn't work as expected for me originally untill I changed the event from KeyDown to KeyPress and then the event handler looks like this:

private void _example_KeyPress(object sender, System.Windows.Forms.KeyPressEventArgs e)
{
if (e.KeyChar == Convert.ToChar(13))
{
e.Handled = true;
_btn_Click(this, e);
}
}

By: ALexanderT

ALexanderT — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 08:18:37 +0000

just put this in an keydown or up event:

if (e.KeyData == Keys.Enter)
{
//do action
}

easy, clean and quick

By: Dameure

Dameure — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 19:22:54 +0000

Thanks a lot. Great solution :-)

By: Allan K

Allan K — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 06:37:51 +0000

Nice, just that I needed.
Alllan
/Denmark

By: Yuri

Yuri — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 06:57:49 +0000

e.Handled = True. Too right.
Thanks a lot! IsInputKey's been driving me nuts.

By: xtian

xtian — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 14:19:40 +0000

Oops – changed the form so that the AcceptButton was set, and saw exactly the behaviour you describe. Thanks!

By: xtian

xtian — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 14:06:32 +0000

Hmm – just tried this in .NET 2.0, and it seems that KeyPress is fired when an Enter is sent to a vanilla textbox. Is this something that's likely to have been fixed in the new version?

By: brief thanks

brief thanks — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 10:12:54 +0000

you sir are a legend. congratulations upon receiving such an accolade.
saved me a good spot of google trawling ™
cheers buddy
;)

By: Eric

Eric — Fri, 26 May 2006 20:40:51 +0000

Thank you. This was very helpful.
I did note one thing that may help others.
I originally encountered this problem on a form with the AcceptButton property set to an "OK" button.
When I reset the AcceptButton property to "(none)", I was able to intercept the ENTER button without overriding the IsInputKey method.
For me this, was an easier change. I simply communicate the DialogResult differently.
-Eric.

By: Pieter

Pieter — Tue, 14 Mar 2006 12:50:30 +0000

I like your solution Brian.
Saved me a lot of work with this trick.
Thx :)