Reset button doesn't clear text boxes

[dpdoug]

I have an HTML Reset button on a web form that works fine for clearing all the text boxes on the form. But for some strange reason after adding or deleting a record with that form, it will no longer clear the boxes, unless you close the browser and open the page again.

Is this a bug?

If there were a substitute for the reset button in the server controls, I would use it. But as far as I can see there isn't one.

Does anyone know what causes this?

 

[BoulderBum]

There is an HtmlInputButton control in the HTML controls acts as a reset button (click the HTML tab). You may or may not be using it, but I thought I'd give mention.

Anyhow, I guess the reset button doesn't necessarily blank the form values out, rather it restores them to their original state. From the MSDN docs:

Note A reset button does not support the ServerClick event. When a reset button is clicked, all input controls on the page are not necessarily cleared. Instead, they are returned to their original state when the page was loaded. For example, if a text box originally contained the value "JohnDoe", clicking on the reset button would return the text box to this value.

I bet your problem has to due with ViewState setting the control values when your page is loaded. Can you afford to turn ViewState off for the TextBoxes?

 

[dpdoug]

I disabled the viewstate on the text boxes and it didn't make any difference. But I'll try using the HtmlInputButton as you suggested and see how this works.