The AcceptButton along with the CancelButton are Form Properties that work only with buttons in C# Visual Studio. When these Form Properties are set, pressing enter or escape causes the click event to be executed.
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C# How to escape form's Accept Button from getting triggered
I have a Windows Form, with a ListView and a TextBox placed right on top of it. Also there is a button named 'Submit' on the Form with AcceptButton set to true.
Now, my requirement is that, whenever I load the form and hit Enter, Submit button gets…

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Setting AcceptButton to None still closes the form on ENTER
I have a MDI windows forms application and my child forms mostly have "OK" and "Cancel" buttons. However I do not want them to be activated with ENTER/ESC keys to prevent accidental saves/aborts. So, the form has both AcceptButton and CancelButton…

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C#: Trouble with Form.AcceptButton
I have a form with an button which is set as the AcceptButton of the form. The form has several other controls. Now when I press Enter on other controls the form gets closed because of the accept button on the form. Same goes for CancelButton. How…

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AcceptsReturn equivalent for WebBrowser .NET control
I have a Windows .NET application and one of the forms has a WebBrowser control, an OK button and a Cancel button.
The WebBrowser control hosts a TextArea html element, so I can write inside.
If the OK button is the form's AcceptButton…

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Accept Button and Data Binding inconsistency
It is convenient to have an "Accept Button" (in WPF: IsDefault="True") on a Form.
In the Windows Forms world, I used to read the data from the UI to the object(s) in the corresponding Click event of the button.
But with WPF, data binding ought to be…

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How do i easily find the Accept button and the cancel button on a WPF View
I have my PRISM application set up on a MVP pattern and we display modal windows through custom RegionManager. The problem i face right now is when the users close the Modal Window using an Alt+F4! The View closes but the Cancel button logic is…

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AcceptButton doesn't work in case there are TabControl on the form
In the following form, I want the AcceptButton to be OK button, but although I set the property to the Form that OK button is the accept button, the actual result is Test button.
How to fix it?

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WinForms Button: draw as the default button without setting the form's AcceptButton property (custom drawing, IsDefault property, BS_DEFPUSHBUTTON)
Imagine the following construction in WinForms .NET. A WinForms form contains a custom control with several buttons, which are instances of the traditional Button class. One of these buttons is the default button for the form. The custom control…

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The Enter Key does not close a Form if the Focus is on a Button that is not the AcceptButton
I have a modal Form with three Buttons, A B and C.
In addition, I have two Buttons: OK and Cancel. The OK Button's DialogResult property is set to DialogResult.OK and the Cancel Button DialogResult.Cancel.
The Form's AcceptButton and CancelButton…
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Is the Windows Forms AcceptButton behavior in effect when the referenced button is disabled?
With the following:
this.AcceptButton = this.OKButton;
this.OKButton.Enabled = false;
... will the OK button click handler still be invoked when the user presses Enter?

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The Enter button not working on Login page
I just made a login system but I can only login with pressing the button on my screen, not using the enter button on my keyboard. How can I enable this? I read something about the AcceptButton, but how do I apply this?
my code:
login.php

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Winforms Default Button
I'm working on a form that has two main buttons, "OK" and "Cancel". I have set the "Accept Button" property of the form to be the "OK" button.
Goal: I would like the "OK" button to be default, so that when the form is opened the "OK" button is…

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My Form is not registering Enter key presses
I am writing an educational program. I have a button which I want to be "clicked" when the user presses enter. I have set the form's accept button property to true and the KeyPreview property is also set to true. I have tried creating a custom Sub…

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Click Enter in TextBoxes for Runnig Button in Winrt?
How can I do that;
Click Enter in TextBoxes for Runnig Button in Winrt?
I remember that textbox's AcceptReturn property doing it but for doing it we were changing forms' AcceptButton property in System.Forms but there is no property named…

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Accept Button and Cancel Button in a Panel in Windows Forms .NET
I am working in Windows Forms. I have a Form which has two panels.
Both panels have OK and Cancel buttons. I want them to behave as Accept and Cancel button (Similar to Form's AcceptButton and CancelButton), for their respective panel(container).
So…

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