My reset button in my form does not clear my form??

[cazbarr]

Hi all,

I have created a form using a table. I have created a reset form and a send email button.

I thought my reset button would clear my form, but this is not happening and I am not sure if this can be fixed. My site is not live at present but this is my code for the form:

 <table width="600" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2">
          <tr>
            <td align="right"><form id="form1" name="form1" method="post" action="">
              <label for="name">Full Name:</label>
            </form></td>
            <td align="left"><input name="name" type="text" id="name" maxlength="35" /></td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <td align="right"><form id="form2" name="form2" method="post" action="">
              <label for="email">Email Address:</label>
            </form></td>
            <td align="left"><input name="email" type="text" id="email" maxlength="30" /></td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <td align="right"><form id="form3" name="form3" method="post" action="">
              <label for="comment">Comment:</label>
            </form></td>
            <td align="left"><textarea name="comment" id="comment" cols="35" rows="5"></textarea></td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <td align="right"><form id="form4" name="form4" method="post" action="">
              <label for="where">How did you find us?</label>
            </form></td>
            <td align="left"><form id="form5" name="form5" method="post" action="">
              <select name="where" id="where">
                <option>Choose one...</option>
                <option value="google">Google</option>
                <option value="yahoo">Yahoo</option>
                <option value="Bing">Bing</option>
                <option value="youtube">Youtube</option>
                <option value="other">Other</option>
              </select>
            </form></td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <td align="right"><form id="form6" name="form6" method="post" action="">
              <input type="reset" name="resetform" id="resetform" value="Reset form" />
            </form></td>
            <td align="left"><input type="submit" name="submit" id="submit" value="Send Email" /></td>
          </tr>
        </table>
      </div>

Can anyone help me please :)

Thank you in advance for any help
Caroline

[Rabbit]

That's because your reset button is in a different form than your other controls. I'm not sure why you're encapsulating each control in their own form.

[cazbarr]

That's because your reset button is in a different form than your other controls. I'm not sure why you're encapsulating each control in their own form.

Thanks Rabbit for your reply. I am very new to dreamweaver and creating forms, (this is my first one). I am not sure what you mean that each of my controls are in their own form.

I followed a youtube video and everything worked for them using the table format to build the form??

So how would I fix this?? In simple terms please :)

Thanks
Caroline

[cazbarr]

Hi Rabbit, it's ok now, I have fixed the problem. Thank you for your help :)

I basically started again, not sure what I done wrong first time, but at least it is working now.

Thanks again
Caroline

[Rabbit]

Here's what was happening. You had something like this:

<form>
 <input>
</form>

<form>
 <input>
</form>

<form>
 <input>
</form>

Each of those is in their own form.

What you want is for all of them to be in one form. Like this:

<form>
 <input>
 <input>
 <input>
</form>

[cazbarr]

Thank you Rabbit for all your help :) Got it fixed.

Caroline