i tried both way and slit up the button click events and the clear works fine but the submit wont add the record into the database like it used to. before i had that IfPage,IsValid right under the SubButtonClick event and if it was the clear button it ran through the first code Else it ran the submit code and records were added into the database .. then i added the validators and both buttons stopped responding and now i have the clear button working but my submit wont add record to database and i'm not sure why or how this happened