(Citing source at: http://jqueryui.com/demos/dialog/#modal-form)
As an example, this works great but each time the form is subsequently opened the user entered values remain. How can I stop this behavior? (the form will be used multiple times on the same page.
<style type="text/css">
body { font-size: 62.5%; }
label, input { display:block; }
input.text { margin-bottom:12px; width:95%; padding: .4em; }
fieldset { padding:0; border:0; margin-top:25px; }
h1 { font-size: 1.2em; margin: .6em 0; }
div#users-contain { width: 350px; margin: 20px 0; }
div#users-contain table { margin: 1em 0; border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%; }
div#users-contain table td, div#users-contain table th { border: 1px solid #eee; padding: .6em 10px; text-align: left; }
.ui-dialog .ui-state-error { padding: .3em; }
.validateTips { border: 1px solid transparent; padding: 0.3em; }
</style>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(function() {
// a workaround for a flaw in the demo system (http://dev.jqueryui.com/ticket/4375), ignore!
$("#dialog").dialog("destroy");
var name = $("#name"),
email = $("#email"),
password = $("#password"),
allFields = $([]).add(name).add(email).add(password),
tips = $(".validateTips");
function updateTips(t) {
tips
.text(t)
.addClass('ui-state-highlight');
setTimeout(function() {
tips.removeClass('ui-state-highlight', 1500);
}, 500);
}
function checkLength(o,n,min,max) {
if ( o.val().length > max || o.val().length < min ) {
o.addClass('ui-state-error');
updateTips("Length of " + n + " must be between "+min+" and "+max+".");
return false;
} else {
return true;
}
}
function checkRegexp(o,regexp,n) {
if ( !( regexp.test( o.val() ) ) ) {
o.addClass('ui-state-error');
updateTips(n);
return false;
} else {
return true;
}
}
$("#dialog-form").dialog({
autoOpen: false,
height: 300,
width: 350,
modal: true,
buttons: {
'Create an account': function() {
var bValid = true;
allFields.removeClass('ui-state-error');
bValid = bValid && checkLength(name,"username",3,16);
bValid = bValid && checkLength(email,"email",6,80);
bValid = bValid && checkLength(password,"password",5,16);
bValid = bValid && checkRegexp(name,/^[a-z]([0-9a-z_])+$/i,"Username may consist of a-z, 0-9, underscores, begin with a letter.");
// From jquery.validate.js (by joern), contributed by Scott Gonzalez: http://projects.scottsplayground.com/email_address_validation/
bValid = bValid && checkRegexp(email,/^((([a-z]|\d|[!#\$%&'\*\+\-\/=\?\^_`{\|}~]|[\u00A0-\uD7FF\uF900-\uFDCF\uFDF0-\uFFEF])+(\.([a-z]|\d|[!#\$%&'\*\+\-\/=\?\^_`{\|}~]|[\u00A0-\uD7FF\uF900-\uFDCF\uFDF0-\uFFEF])+)*)|((\x22)((((\x20|\x09)*(\x0d\x0a))?(\x20|\x09)+)?(([\x01-\x08\x0b\x0c\x0e-\x1f\x7f]|\x21|[\x23-\x5b]|[\x5d-\x7e]|[\u00A0-\uD7FF\uF900-\uFDCF\uFDF0-\uFFEF])|(\\([\x01-\x09\x0b\x0c\x0d-\x7f]|[\u00A0-\uD7FF\uF900-\uFDCF\uFDF0-\uFFEF]))))*(((\x20|\x09)*(\x0d\x0a))?(\x20|\x09)+)?(\x22)))@((([a-z]|\d|[\u00A0-\uD7FF\uF900-\uFDCF\uFDF0-\uFFEF])|(([a-z]|\d|[\u00A0-\uD7FF\uF900-\uFDCF\uFDF0-\uFFEF])([a-z]|\d|-|\.|_|~|[\u00A0-\uD7FF\uF900-\uFDCF\uFDF0-\uFFEF])*([a-z]|\d|[\u00A0-\uD7FF\uF900-\uFDCF\uFDF0-\uFFEF])))\.)+(([a-z]|[\u00A0-\uD7FF\uF900-\uFDCF\uFDF0-\uFFEF])|(([a-z]|[\u00A0-\uD7FF\uF900-\uFDCF\uFDF0-\uFFEF])([a-z]|\d|-|\.|_|~|[\u00A0-\uD7FF\uF900-\uFDCF\uFDF0-\uFFEF])*([a-z]|[\u00A0-\uD7FF\uF900-\uFDCF\uFDF0-\uFFEF])))\.?$/i,"eg. ui@jquery.com");
bValid = bValid && checkRegexp(password,/^([0-9a-zA-Z])+$/,"Password field only allow : a-z 0-9");
if (bValid) {
$('#users tbody').append('<tr>' +
'<td>' + name.val() + '</td>' +
'<td>' + email.val() + '</td>' +
'<td>' + password.val() + '</td>' +
'</tr>');
$(this).dialog('close');
}
},
Cancel: function() {
$(this).dialog('close');
}
},
close: function() {
allFields.val('').removeClass('ui-state-error');
}
});
$('#create-user')
.button()
.click(function() {
$('#dialog-form').dialog('open');
});
});
</script>
<div class="demo">
<div id="dialog-form" title="Create new user">
<p class="validateTips">All form fields are required.</p>
<form>
<fieldset>
<label for="name">Name</label>
<input type="text" name="name" id="name" class="text ui-widget-content ui-corner-all" />
<label for="email">Email</label>
<input type="text" name="email" id="email" value="" class="text ui-widget-content ui-corner-all" />
<label for="password">Password</label>
<input type="password" name="password" id="password" value="" class="text ui-widget-content ui-corner-all" />
</fieldset>
</form>
</div>
<div id="users-contain" class="ui-widget">
<h1>Existing Users:</h1>
<table id="users" class="ui-widget ui-widget-content">
<thead>
<tr class="ui-widget-header ">
<th>Name</th>
<th>Email</th>
<th>Password</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>John Doe</td>
<td>john.doe@example.com</td>
<td>johndoe1</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</div>
<button id="create-user">Create new user</button>
</div><!-- End demo -->
<div class="demo-description">
<p>Use a modal dialog to require that the user enter data during a multi-step process. Embed form markup in the content area, set the <code>modal</code> option to true, and specify primary and secondary user actions with the <code>buttons</code> option.</p>
</div><!-- End demo-description -->
http://jqueryui.com/demos/dialog/#method-destroy