15450 2012-01-07 11:41:50 +0000 needed method to set "current state" of a form as the "default state" 2016-04-18 21:04:00 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified HTML WG HTML5 spec unspecified PC Windows NT RESOLVED WONTFIX P2 enhancement --- 1 giorgio.liscio dave.null ian kornel lrosenth mackenzie mike plh public-html-admin public-html-wg-issue-tracking robin travil public-html-bugzilla oldest_to_newest 62371 0 giorgio.liscio 2012-01-07 11:41:50 +0000 my case is, briefly <form> <input name="aaa" value="XXX"> <input type="submit" value="Save"> <input type="reset" value="Reset"> </form> user changes value of "aaa" from XXX to YYY in a "web 1.0" form the page will be reloaded and this is ok. but in my case, this form will be sent by xhr, then if "save" will be successful I have to loop manually over every data holder (texts, checkboxes, selects...) and set: theinput.defaultValue = theinput.value; otherwise the Reset button will reset the "aaa" value to "XXX", thats not what I want, because I've saved the form. so a form's interface method like HTMLFormElement.setCurrentValuesAsDefaultValues(); would be really cool. I hope this helps 62435 1 kornel 2012-01-09 22:30:40 +0000 I'm curious what is your use case for including Reset button in the form? Is saving of entire form granular enough? If you're already using JavaScript to serialize the form, why not use that to restore previous values? Are there existing libraries (jQuery plugins, etc.) that solve this problem? 63622 2 ian 2012-02-03 06:28:48 +0000 I've run into this too — in particular, Firefox seems very eager to fill in form fields and restore form control state even when they're not in <form>s, including button disabled states, etc, so that you can basically never guess when the page loads what state a form control is going to be in. It's kinda annoying. Not sure what to do about it. 70097 3 contributor 2012-07-18 06:53:49 +0000 This bug was cloned to create bug 17813 as part of operation convergence. 81731 4 robin 2013-01-21 15:59:40 +0000 Mass move to "HTML WG" 81849 5 robin 2013-01-21 16:02:26 +0000 Mass move to "HTML WG" 125893 6 travil 2016-04-18 21:04:00 +0000 HTML5.1 Bugzilla Bug Triage: Incubation needed This bug constitutes a request for a new feature of HTML. Our current guidelines, rather than track such requests as bugs or issues, is to create a proposal for the desired behavior, or at least a sketch of what is wanted (much of which is probably contained in this bug), and start the discussion/proposal in the WICG (https://www.w3.org/community/wicg/). As your idea gains interest and momentum, it may be brought back into HTML through the Intent to Migrate process (https://wicg.github.io/admin/intent-to-migrate.html).