Textareas are form elements, val() is used to get and set their contents:
$('textarea').val()
$('textarea').val( newValue )
Karl Rudd
On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 10:30 AM, Lowell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I am getting unexpected behavior. It seems that changing the text of a
> text box doesn't work once I've typed into it. I've given a pared down
> version of my code below. The way it works is:
>
> - before typing anything into the text area, you can click on the
> links on the page and they will set the text in the text area. Try
> clicking each of them to see that it does indeed work.
> - once a user has typed into the text area, those links stop
> working.
>
> Any idea what I might be doing wrong to be breaking this?
>
> Thanks,
> Lowell
>
> ----
>
> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://jquery.com/src/jquery-
> latest.js"></script>
> <script>
> $(function() {
> /* make sample code clickable */
> $('.sampleCode').click(function() {
> var text = $.trim($(this).text());
> $('textarea').text(text);
> return false;
> });
> });
> </script>
>
> <textarea cols="80" rows="10">hello world</textarea>
>
> <h2>Populate with sample code:</h2>
>
> jQuery:
> <a href="#" class="sampleCode">$('p').css('border', '1px solid red)</
> a>
>
> <br/>
>
> prototype:
> <a href="#" class="sampleCode">$('p').hide()</a>
>
