Reset webform without using HTML reset button???

[token]

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.

[Magiaus]

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

[mendhak]

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.

[token]

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.

[nemaroller]

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.