Cannot clear the textarea's text / contents

[chalu]

Is there a way to clear the contents of the textarea ? my intuition is to use $('.textarea').val(''); but this has not worked, neither has $('.textarea').empty() worked.

[archanavhire]

You can do it by setHTML method. $(".selector").editable("setHTML", "", false);

[marwen-cherif]

I have the same problem

$(".selector").editable("setHTML", "", false);

does not work for me.