Clear text area

Question

In Onselect event I have script:

$(\"#vinanghinguyen_images_bbocde\").val(\'\');
$(\"#vinanghinguyen_images_bbocde\").val(vinanghinguyen_final_bbcode);


        

Answer 1

I agree with @Jakub Arnold's answer. The problem should be somewhere else. I could not figure out the problem but found a work around.

Wrap your concerned element with a parent element and cause its html to create a new element with the id you are concerned with. See below

<div id="theParent">
    <div id="vinanghinguyen_images_bbocde"></div>
</div>

'onSelect'    : function(event,ID,fileObj) {
 $("#theParent").html("<div id='vinanghinguyen_images_bbocde'></div>");
 $("#vinanghinguyen_result").hide();
 $(".uploadifyQueue").height(315);
}

Answer 2

When you do $("#vinanghinguyen_images_bbocde").val('');, it removes all the content of the textarea, so if that's not what is happening, the problem is probably somewhere else.

It might help if you post a little bit larger portion of your code, since the example you provided works.

Answer 3

I just tried using this code and @psynnott's answer was correct though I needed to know it would work repeatedly, seems to work with jquery 1.7.1 >

I modified the jfiddle to the following http://jsfiddle.net/Rjj9v/109/

$('#mytext').text('');

This is not a new answer @psynnott is correct I am just providing a more concise example that shows the textarea is still working after the clear because if you use .val("") the text area stops working

Answer 4

Correct answer is: $("#selElement_Id option:selected").removeAttr("selected");

Answer 5

I believe the problem is simply a spelling error when writing bbcode as bbocde:

$("#vinanghinguyen_images_bbocde").val('')

should be:

$("#vinanghinguyen_images_bbcode").val('')