FP: Clicking Reset on Search Results Page Does Not Clear Form

When you click the Reset button on a search page, the Search for text box is cleared. When you click the Reset button on a search results page, nothing happens.

This behavior occurs because the initial value of the text box on the search form is set to the current search value. According to the FrontPage specification, the search component sets the initial value on the search results page to the search text. Therefore, when you click the Reset button, the search text remains in the text box on the search results page.

To work around this behavior, you can reset the search form using Dynamic HTML (DHTML). For additional information about how to do this, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

According to the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) specification, the Reset button in an HTML form is supposed to set the value displayed in a text box back to its initial value.

For additional information about HTML syntax, see the following World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) web site: