How to reset a form's values in Internet Explorer

nissan240zx · Mar 20, 2006

Hello All,
Let me first start by saying I am not asking about the submit and reset button in a form. Thats working fine.

The scenario is -
I have a form (jsp) which processes a transaction which when I submit I get the confirmation page.
Now on that same page I also have a button called create new transaction.
When I click that and come to the form, its got all the values from the previous form submission.
Is there any script or feature that I can setup so when I click the create new transaction button it resets, refreshes the form fields and gives me a clean empty form.

Let me know also say that this problem is happening on only one of my machines..and as I cant predict what setting there might be on a potential users machine I want to make this "idiot proof".

Please help..

Nissan.

A good programmer is someone who looks both ways before crossing a one-way street. - Doug Linder

nissan240zx · Mar 20, 2006

I have an idea...maybe..
Will my issue be resolved if a Body onload event is fired which would reset my form fields..
Can anyone suggest me how to do that.

soemthing like

Code:

<BODY onLoad="reset_form()">

Code:

<SCRIPT TYPE="text/javascript">
function reset()
{
document.yourFormName.reset();
}
//-->
</SCRIPT>

Will something like thsi work...
Please advice...

A good programmer is someone who looks both ways before crossing a one-way street. - Doug Linder

trollacious · Mar 20, 2006

Did you try putting that at the bottom of the page?

Lee

nissan240zx · Mar 20, 2006

Hello Lee,
Could you please explain by wht it means by putting that at the bottom of the page.
Do you mean add it after submit.

I would really prefer it to on the page which loads the form.
For example the first page that user would access is
form_main.jsp. They complete the form and submit it, and gets displayed form_process_complete.jsp. Thsi page has a button to load form_main.jsp
So when they load form_main.jsp, the fields get reset.

Basically what I am saying is everytime form_main.jsp gets loaded all the fields should get reset by default on Body OnLoad.

Hope I am explaining Ok..

A good programmer is someone who looks both ways before crossing a one-way street. - Doug Linder

trollacious · Mar 20, 2006

At the bottom of the page you want to clear the form on, use this:

Code:

<SCRIPT TYPE="text/javascript">
document.forms['yourFormName'].reset();
//-->
</SCRIPT>

Just remember to change yourFormName to whatever the name of the form on the page is that you're resetting.

Lee

nissan240zx · Mar 20, 2006

I guess I didnt explain the issue I am having..
The reset button on the form works fine..but when it gets reloaded from another link the form elements seems to have the values in them.

A good programmer is someone who looks both ways before crossing a one-way street. - Doug Linder

trollacious · Mar 20, 2006

Doing this blind doesn't work, you know. If you want help with some of the code, you should post this in the appropriate forum, probably for whichever server-side scripting language the page is written in.

Lee

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