How to specify default button in JSF

hi all,

The problem is I got two submit buttons in a page, one for saving form, one for searching. The save button at the top and search one at the bottom. You know, the default would be save button when I press "Enter" key. Now if I want to trigger search button after the event, What should I do?

Thank you in advance,
Zane
[ October 14, 2008: Message edited by: Zane ]

We faced similar problem in our project. We also had two buttons one for continue and other for 'Go BAck'. We wrote javascript to trap the pressing of enter key and submitted the form on the event.

Originally posted by Himanshu Gupta:
We faced similar problem in our project. We also had two buttons one for continue and other for 'Go BAck'. We wrote javascript to trap the pressing of enter key and submitted the form on the event.

Thank you for your advice, Himanshu. But, You know, JS is not that graceful in JSF page. Any simple solution?

"Zane",
Please check your private messages.
-DOM

Originally posted by David O'Meara:
"Zane",
Please check your private messages.
-DOM

Sorry about that. have corrected it.

Try putting each button in an h:form

put the button you want to be default in the same form as the fields you have and put the other button in another h:form.

Hope it helps
[ October 14, 2008: Message edited by: Abdul Shams ]

Originally posted by Abdul Shams:
Try putting each button in an h:form

put the button you want to be default in the same form as the fields you have and put the other button in another h:form.

Hope it helps

[ October 14, 2008: Message edited by: Abdul Shams ]

Thank you Abdul, but when I do it like this:

<h:form>
<h:form>
save button
</h:form>
<h:form>
search button
</h:form>
</h:form>

the save button wouldn't work. Any idea?
[ October 14, 2008: Message edited by: Zane Wlight ]

Check out

http://www.jsftutorials.net/defaultActionTag.html

Originally posted by Abiodun Adisa:
Check out

http://www.jsftutorials.net/defaultActionTag.html

Thank you very much Abiodun, it really helps

I think I have a simplest solution.

Use <h:command button value="XXX" action="ssss" type="submit"/>

type=submit attribute will take care of it............

Hope this helps

-Srik