In some cases, you will want to give the
user the ability to reset an entire form so that it is cleared
completely back to its default state.
To do so, you can use the RESET button
that works exactly the same as the SUBMIT button except that it
instructs the browser to clear the form instead of telling it to
send in the form data to the server.
A reset button looks like the following. Try typing in some information
into the text field and then hitting the reset button.
The code to create it looks like the
following:
<FORM>
<INPUT TYPE = "TEXT"
NAME = "reset_text"
>
<INPUT TYPE = "RESET"
VALUE = "Clear The Text"
NAME = "reset"
>
</FORM>
As with the SUBMIT button, the RESET
button can have a NAME and a VALUE, though you'd never use the
NAME for anything since it is never sent in to the server.
