Reset button @ forms

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Some sites provide a ?Reset? button at the bottom of their forms. Reset buttons generally wipe out all of the user?s input and return the form to blanks or defaults. You don?t really need ?Reset,? do you?
 
Most usability experts, as well as nearly everyone who has pressed one by mistake, think they’re a bad idea as well as unnecessary.
 
The only time that a Reset button might be useful is in a public library, say, when you don’t want the next person in line to see your search :D
 
If you want to give people the opportunity to return a complicated form or set of preferences to its initial values, a reset operation is fine. Just call it ?Return to Initial Values? so that users know exactly what is going to happen, and place it far away from all the other buttons on the page.
 
In a good web application/form, it would do just as CyberTurk says. Disagreeing with cpengineer though. Do we put the accellator far away from the brake so those old people know which one is which? Not really...

I've been involved in the GUI side of web applications where the Reset button was absolutely critical for those complex forms returning to their initial values.
 
I dont think they are needed but execptions should be made for certain scenarios. As plexihosting states above.
 
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