HTMLFormElement: reset event

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.

The reset event fires when a <form> is reset.

Syntax

Use the event name in methods like addEventListener(), or set an event handler property.

js
addEventListener("reset", (event) => { })
onreset = (event) => { }

Event type

A generic Event.

Examples

This example uses EventTarget.addEventListener() to listen for form resets, and logs the current Event.timeStamp whenever that occurs.

HTML

html
<form id="form">
  <label>Test field: <input type="text" /></label>
  <br /><br />
  <button type="reset">Reset form</button>
</form>
<p id="log"></p>

JavaScript

js
function logReset(event) {
  log.textContent = `Form reset! Timestamp: ${event.timeStamp}`;
}
const form = document.getElementById("form");
const log = document.getElementById("log");
form.addEventListener("reset", logReset);

Result

Specifications

Specification
HTML
# event-reset

Browser compatibility

See also