Ban Clear Form Buttons
Death to "Clear Form" buttons!
They only exist to accidentally clear the form you've just spent 10 minutes filling out.
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Join the movement to ban "Clear Form" buttons from the web! These throwbacks to computer science sophomores are a bane to civilized discourse. The only reason they exist is to accidentally erase the form you've just spent ten minutes filling out, because they are inevitably placed a hair's breadth away from the "Submit" button!
The only appropriate place for a "clear" button is at the TOP of the form where one may, in fact, want to clear the form. However, even then, one can easily erase any existing data on a per field basis, as required. Please feel pass this on to webmasters who are still stuck on the meaningless tradition!
Peter Fraterdeus is a UI designer and communications consultant. For more discussion of online user interface design, visit the dezineCafé.Return to the dezineCafé, already in progress...
