Clear form fields with jQuery

Question

I want to clear all input and textarea fields in a form. It works like the following when using an input button with the reset class:

$(\".reset         


        

Answer 1

the code I see here and on related SO questions seems incomplete.

Resetting a form means setting the original values from the HTML, so I put this together for a little project I was doing based on the above code:

            $(':input', this)
                .not(':button, :submit, :reset, :hidden')
                .each(function(i,e) {
                    $(e).val($(e).attr('value') || '')
                        .prop('checked',  false)
                        .prop('selected', false)
                })

            $('option[selected]', this).prop('selected', true)
            $('input[checked]',   this).prop('checked',  true)
            $('textarea',         this).each(function(i,e) { $(e).val($(e).html()) })

Please let me know if I'm missing anything or anything can be improved.