Best way to make 'Clear Form' button.

[gat]

I need to have a button on a form to clear the inputs.

Im using

value="<? echo $subdatefrom; ?>"

To keep the inputed data

so

<input name="Reset" type="reset" class="buttons" value="Reset">

Is obviously not working.
I can probably come up with a big work arround, but is there an easy way to clear all these fields?

Thanks.

[AstroTeg]

You'd have to use client-side JavaScript to clear the form variables. You could create a button that calls a function on the onClick event. The function might be clearForm() or something like that (if you're fancy, you pass along the form name to clear.

function clearForm(form)
{
}  // end function clearForm(form)

There's two ways to go after this: quick and dirty which would be just to process each form element to clearForm():

function clearForm(form)
{
  document.form.[yourFieldName].value = "";
  // more form fields go here...
}  // end function clearForm(form)

Or if you have a little bit of time, you can look into how to iterate through the form object and clear out all the form elements. This is a little more difficult since you have to check the object type and clear out a text field one way and a radio button or check box another way. If you want more info on this, you should be able to find bits and pieces at http://www.irt.org in the JavaScript Form FAQ.

[tsinka]

Another way:

Change the button type to "submit". Inside the script check if $_POST['Reset'] is set and only echo the values if that isn't the case. But that only works by submitting the form.

Thomas