Reset webform without using HTML reset button???

On my webform I am currently using the HTML Reset button to reset the form. The problem is that when the form is viewed by someone to approve I would like to hide the button along with some other options to be available only on data entry.

Is there another way i can reset the form, possibly in vbscript.

I tried doing it in javascript but the validateRequiredFields that I have on the form fires stopping the reset.

Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks.

Where are you firing the JavaScript from? Can you turn of the CauseValidation for that Control?

Use an asp:button whose causesvalidation property is false. In its codebehind, run through the control, setting textboxes to blank, comboboxes to first element, and so on.

The javascript was in the onclick event for the asp button.

I didn't even notice the CauseValidation property for the button, I will try it now with that set to false and I am sure it should work now.

Thanks again guys.

Magiaus, you always get my posts, thanks again. You should have my job.

To me reseting the form means making it contain the initial values it had when it was served to the client. Therefore - simply blanking out text boxes and selecting the first index of a combobox is not a reset - its a clear.

Now, I don't know what your true intention was (reset or clear), but if it was the former then all you really need to suceed at it is:

document.forms[0].reset();


which resets all form values to their initial values as they were when the form was delivered to the client.