access textarea value

I have a on a for开发者_开发百科m of mine. I´m trying to reset the value (the value typed by the user) of this field on a certain event. However, I seem unable to access it both with .val() and .html().

Any advice on this?

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Do not use .html(), use .val().

$("#your_textarea_id").val("Some literal <textarea> content.");

This way special characters (<, > etc) will show up correctly.

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Set an id on that field so you can easily target it with $('#the_id'). If it's a textarea use .text(''), input use .val('')

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$('#text_area').val("");