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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
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?
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.
This bug was cloned to create bug 17813 as part of operation convergence.
Mass move to "HTML WG"
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