Javascript OnClick buttons

Clarkinator

Right, I have a form with 3 buttons. In the form are text boxes and <select> drop down boxes.

What I have now is that when I click 1 button, I get it to do what I want but when I click 1 button, I need the forms to retain the information that the user entered moments before as on button click, it refreshes the page and all the details are gone.

The way I was told to do it with PHP stops me from using the Reset button to clear the form. However I was hoping that if I clicked the button for say preview, it would be able to set the field values to that which the user entered moments ago instead of clearing them.

bradgrafelman

Clarkinator wrote:
The way I was told to do it with PHP stops me from using the Reset button to clear the form

It has nothing to do with PHP - when you pre-fill form elements with a default value (e.g. to restore the user's submission back into the form elements for further editing), then you've altered the default value - it's no longer an empty value. Thus, the "reset" will reset the elements back to their default values (which you've altered).

Having said that, I'm a bit confused as to what you're asking. Are you trying to make a button that clears all form elements out, regardless of their default values?

Clarkinator

Right then. Ill explain again.

In 1 form, I have text boxes and <Submit> dropboxes.

I want 1 Button, Preview, to set the fields back to the user entered data from before the click since on button click it clears the data. However, I want this so that the Reset button actually resets the values to 0 or Blank depending on which.

This can be done 1 of 2 ways. Either 1: The reset button resets all the variables to the page load default which is blank or 0 according to which field. Or 2: Onclick of the Preview button, the values are set but not the same way as the PHP one since that sets them until you do a hard reload of the page.

Clarkinator

Well, while the 2 ways are there. I've got no idea how to code it.