Reset the form to Null or Reload the page using reset even after a submit

Question

Hi ,
This is the scenario:
I have two button - Submit and Reset
Submit is used for validation and after validation is passed it passes it to another form to enter into database.
Bascially the reset works fine if I use it before using the submit button in the form. For instance,if on submit there is some error as the values have not passed a validation. There is a error pop up message shown and the values are retained in the field and Now if I use reset , all the values of the field do not go back to null.
I am new with form validation. I checked online and it said that reset will not clear if we have used submit and we need to use javascript to do it.
So I made reset into a button which onclick event calls the reset() function and clears the form but I am sure that the code is not right as it is not working, I tired putting a alert message in my function to reassue that the function is being called but I think it is not.
Posting my code
<INPUT id=reset1 name=reset1 type =button value=Reset onClick="reset()">
<Script>
function reset()
alert ("all values shall be cleared now");
document.frmUser.name.value = "" ;
document.frmUser.uservalue  = "" ;
document.frmUser.contactNumbervalue  = "";
document.frmUser.emailvalue  = "" ;
</Script>
I am not sure if its the best way to do it.
I want the whole form to refresh/ reload every time reset is clicked and all the fields to have no values.
Thanks for the help in advance.
Sumant                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   

Answer 1

Hi .
I got break on this issue by following the code snippet
<script >
function clearForm() {
document.getElementsByName('foo')[0].value = '';
document.getElementsByName('bar')[0].value = '';
document.getElementsByName('baz')[0].value = '';
</script>
<html:button value="Clear" onklick="clearForm() />
thanks,
Sumant K