Clears various types of form input.

Clear Form

//jQuery Plugin
$.fn.clearForm = function() {
  return this.each(function() {
    var type = this.type, tag = this.tagName.toLowerCase();
    if (tag == 'form')
      return $(':input',this).clearForm();
    if (type == 'text' || type == 'password' || tag == 'textarea')
      this.value = '';
    else if (type == 'checkbox' || type == 'radio')
      this.checked = false;
    else if (tag == 'select')
      this.selectedIndex = -1;
  });
};

// Call it on your <form>
$('form').clearForm();

Code snippets found on jQuery Howto:
http://jquery-howto.blogspot.com/2013/08/jquery-form-reset.html