LinkButton in a User Control

[jstansell]

This seems like an easy task, but I have not been able to solve it or find anything in this forum about it. Perhaps my verbaige is not correct..

I have a User control (menu bar) that has a link button on it. For some reason this button becomes the default button every time the aspx page displays. Meaning, when you hit the enter key this button is what fires. How do I control this? I really do not want this button to be the default. I have a button on my aspx page that needs to be the default. I have tried setting the tabindex to 0 and also -1 with no effect.

Thanks for any help

[nemaroller]

Forget about tabindex, that will get you no where. I seriously don't understand why tabindex is even in the list of properties, because it has never done anything productive at all.

Here's what matters to a browser as far as tab indexes:

Whatever gets rendered first get the first tab focus. Anything after that follows on down the chain.

So it is likely your LinkButton is the first control you are rendering on your aspx page. In order to to make it not the first, you have to render it after a different 'input' field. That other 'input' field will now get focus first.

so move it declarations underneath a different control (that accepts input like a Button, Linkbutton, textbox..etc)