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Reset Button Not Working

Why does nothing happen when I click on the reset button? Also, is there a way to set focus back to the text box when a user clicks reset?

Here is the current code where reset is not working:

<form name="search" method="get" onsubmit="return testSearchValue(this)" action="search.html">
      <input type="hidden" name="page_number" value="1"/>
      <input type="text" name="user_input" size="30" style="height:24"/>
      <input type="image" border="0" src="images/go.gif" alt="Go!" width="37" height="24" align="top"/>
      <a href="javascript:document.search.user_input.reset()">
            <img src="images/reset.gif" alt="Reset" border="0" width="74" height="24" align="top"\>
      </a>
</form>

If have tried calling this javascript from onClick in the <a> above and nothing happens:

function resetSearch()
{
      document.search.user_input.reset();
      document.search.user_input.focus();
}

Thanks!

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Timbo87

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Timbo87

With that code you no longer need to call any external functions.
The reason your code above didn't work is because you can't "reset" a textbox. You have to set its value to nothing. It's also better to run JavaScript through an onClick rather than the javascript: protocol.

bparmelee

ASKER

Very cool! Thanks!