[Sigia-l] "clear" button on web forms

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George Schneiderman:

> My hunch is that if you had a web site where users commonly execute fairly
> complex searches that involve specifying a number of different parameters, and
> for which it was common for them to execute successive searches that were
> quite different from one another, that the utility of being able to clear the
> search parameters might outweight the risk of doing so accidentally.

This has absolutely, positively nothing to do with technology, just how you
design your app. In about 17 seconds, you can code your submit button so
that it returns a blank form. Or if you are building an data-entry or
repetitive type of app, you can have a checkbox next to each entry field
which, when checked, can carry its value to the next (blank/partially
filled) form page. This way you can selectively persist entry values between
instances of blank form pages.

Ziya
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