Such jQuery call won’t work: 1 2 $('#formId').reset(); // error: $("#formId").reset() is not a function As the tutorial shows (yes, I never read manuals before I get into troubles as well, but always google answers before think, lol), we can have the following: 1 2 3 4 5 function resetForm(id) { $('#'+id).each(function(){ this.reset(); }); } [...]