How to empty the message in a text area with jquery?

Question

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I want to empty message in a textarea in callback.

Can anyone tell me how to empty it please?

I tried $("#message").empty(), but it does not empty it.

 <form method="post" id="form" action="index.php/admin/messages/insertShoutBox">             <input name="user" id="nick" value="admin" type="hidden">     <p class="messagelabel"><label class="messagelabel">Message</label>     <textarea id="message" name="message" rows="2" cols="40"></textarea>     <input disabled="disabled" id="send" value="Sending..." type="submit"></p>           </form> 

Full code

 $("#form").submit(function(){     if(checkForm()){         var nick = inputUser.attr("value");         var message = inputMessage.attr("value");         //we deactivate submit button while sending         $("#send").attr({ disabled:true, value:"Sending..." });         $("#send").blur();         //send the post to shoutbox.php         $.ajax({             type: "POST",              url: "index.php/admin/dashboard/insertShoutBox",              data: $('#form').serialize(),             complete: function(data){                 messageList.html(data.responseText);                 updateShoutbox();                  $('#message').val('').empty();                 //reactivate the send button                         $("#send").attr({ disabled:false, value:"SUBMIT !" });             }          });     }     else alert("Please fill all fields!");     //we prevent the refresh of the page after submitting the form     return false; }); 

Answer 1

$('#message').val(''); 

Explanation (from @BalusC):
textarea is an input element with a value. You actually want to "empty" the value. So as for every other input element (input, select, textarea) you need to use element.val('');.

Also see docs

Answer 2

$('#message').html(''); 

You can use this method too. Because everything between the open and close tag of textarea is html code.