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The Struts HTML  <html:reset> tag renders a reset button of html tag. This tag is used to reset the form fields data.</html:reset>
<html:reset></html:reset>It is similar as <input type="reset">.This tag must be nested inside of the form tag.Example Usage <html:form> ……. <html:reset value="”Refresh”">: </html:reset></html:form< same as <html:form> ……. <html:reset>Refresh</html:reset></html:form>

The struts reset tag have following attributes:- 
styleId :- This is identifier to be assigned to this HTML element and renders an 'id' attribute.
tabindex :- This is tab ascending positive integers order for this element.
title :- This attributes is  the consultant title for this element.
titleKey :-This attributes is  the consultant title for this element basically this is message resources key.
value :-This is used when label should note that the body of the tag .This can also be used as button label
style :- In this element you can applied CSS style.
styleClass :- In this element you can applied CSS stylesheet class.

 The Following are many other attributes which we can use :
accesskey 
alt
altKey
disabled
onblur
onchange
onclick
ondblclick
onfocus
onkeydown
onkeypress
onkeyup
onmousedown
onmousemove
onmouseout
onmouseover
onmouseup
Directory Structure of ResetTagExample in Struts 1.3 Using MyEclipse IDE



index.jsp

<%@taglib uri="http://struts.apache.org/tags-html" prefix="html"%>
<%@taglib uri="http://struts.apache.org/tags-bean" prefix="bean"%>
<html>
<head>
<title>Struts html:reset tag example</title>
</head>
<body>
<h3>Struts html:reset tag example</h3>
<html:form action="/resetAction">
<bean:message key="label.name"/>:
<html:text property="name" name="resetForm"/><br/>
<bean:message key="label.course"/>:
<html:text property="course" name="resetForm"/><br/>
<bean:message key="label.college"/>:
<html:text property="college" name="resetForm"/><br/>
<bean:message key="label.phone"/>:
<html:text property="phone" name="resetForm"/><br/>
<br/>
<html:submit><bean:message key="label.submit" /></html:submit>
<html:reset><bean:message key="label.reset" /></html:reset>
</html:form>
</body>
</html>

web.xml

<!DOCTYPE web-app PUBLIC
 "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.3//EN"
 "http://java.sun.com/dtd/web-app_2_3.dtd" >
 
<web-app>
  <display-name>Maven Struts Examples</display-name> 
  <servlet>
    <servlet-name>action</servlet-name>
    <servlet-class>
        org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet
    </servlet-class>
    <init-param>
        <param-name>config</param-name>
        <param-value>
         /WEB-INF/struts-config.xml
        </param-value>
    </init-param>
    <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
  </servlet> 
  <servlet-mapping>
       <servlet-name>action</servlet-name>
       <url-pattern>*.do</url-pattern>
  </servlet-mapping> 
</web-app>

struts-config.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE struts-config PUBLIC
"-//Apache Software Foundation//DTD Struts Configuration 1.3//EN" 
"http://struts.apache.org/dtds/struts-config_1_3.dtd">
<struts-config>
  <form-beans>
    <form-bean name="resetForm" type="org.r4r.struts.ResetForm"/>
  </form-beans>
  <global-exceptions />
  <global-forwards />
  <action-mappings >
    <action path="/reset" type="org.apache.struts.actions.ForwardAction" parameter="/index.jsp"/>
		<action path="/resetAction" type="org.r4r.struts.ResetAction" name="resetForm" input="/index.jsp">	
         <forward name="success" path="/success.jsp"/>
		</action>
  </action-mappings>
  <message-resources parameter="org.r4r.struts.ApplicationResources" />
</struts-config>

ResetForm.java

package org.r4r.struts;

import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.Map;
import javax.servlet.ServletException;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import org.apache.struts.action.ActionForm;
import org.apache.struts.action.ActionMapping;
import org.apache.struts.upload.CommonsMultipartRequestHandler;
import org.apache.struts.upload.MultipartRequestWrapper;

@SuppressWarnings("serial")
public class ResetForm extends ActionForm {
	private String name;
	private String course;
	private String college;
	private String phone;
	public String getName() {
		return name;
	}
	public void setName(String name) {
		this.name = name;
	}
	public String getCourse() {
		return course;
	}
	public void setCourse(String course) {
		this.course = course;
	}
	public String getCollege() {
		return college;
	}
	public void setCollege(String college) {
		this.college = college;
	}
	public String getPhone() {
		return phone;
	}
	public void setPhone(String phone) {
		this.phone = phone;
	}

	@SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
	public void reset(ActionMapping mapping, HttpServletRequest request) {
		// reset properties
		if (request instanceof MultipartRequestWrapper) {
            MultipartRequestWrapper wrapper = (MultipartRequestWrapper) request;  
            CommonsMultipartRequestHandler handler = new CommonsMultipartRequestHandler();  
            handler.setMapping(mapping);  
            try {  
                handler.handleRequest(request);  
            } catch (ServletException ex) {  
               System.out.println(ex);  
            }  
            Map paramMap = handler.getTextElements();  
            for (Iterator it = paramMap.keySet().iterator(); it.hasNext() ;)  {  
                String key = (String) it.next();  
                String value = (String) paramMap.get(key);  
                wrapper.setParameter(key, value);  
            }  
        }  
	}

}

ResetAction.java

package org.r4r.struts;

import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
import org.apache.struts.action.Action;
import org.apache.struts.action.ActionForm;
import org.apache.struts.action.ActionForward;
import org.apache.struts.action.ActionMapping;

public class ResetAction extends Action {
	public ActionForward execute(ActionMapping mapping,ActionForm form,
		HttpServletRequest request,HttpServletResponse response) throws Exception{
		@SuppressWarnings("unused")
		ResetForm passwordForm=(ResetForm)form;
		return mapping.findForward("success");
	}
}

ApplicationResources.properties

# Resources for parameter 'org.r4r.struts.ApplicationResources'
# Project Struts1.3_RadioTagExample
#label message
label.name = User Name 
label.course = Course Name
label.college = College Name
label.phone = Phone No
label.submit = Submit
label.reset = Reset

success.jsp


<%@taglib uri="http://struts.apache.org/tags-bean" prefix="bean"%>
 
<html>
<head>
<title>Struts html:reset tag example</title>
</head>
<body>
<h3>Struts html:reset tag Example</h3>
<h4>User Name:-<bean:write name="resetForm" property="name" /></h4>
<h4>Course:-<bean:write name="resetForm" property="course" /></h4>
<h4>College Name:-<bean:write name="resetForm" property="college" /></h4>
<h4>Phone No:-<bean:write name="resetForm" property="phone" /></h4>
</body>
</html>

Output






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