I'm currently using a YUI gadget. I also do have a Javascript function to validate the output that comes from the div that YUI draws for me:

Event.开发者_JAVA技巧on("addGadgetUrl", "click", function(){
    var url = Dom.get("gadget_url").value;  /* line x ------>*/
    if (url == "") {
        error.innerHTML = "<p> error" /></p>";
    } else {
        /* line y ---> */ 
        /*  I need to add some code in here to set the value of "gadget_url" by "" */
    }
}, null, true);

Here is my div:

<div>
<p>URL</p>
<input type="text" name="gadget_url" id="gadget_url" style="width: 350px;" class="input"/>
<input type="button" id="addGadgetUrl" value="add gadget"/>
<br>
<span id="error"></span>
</div>

As you can see my question is, how can I set the value of gadget_url to be ""?

Javascript

document.getElementById('gadget_url').value = '';

jQuery

$("#gadget_url").val("");

YUI

Dom.get("gadget_url").set("value","");

document.getElementById('gadget_url').value = '';

The following works in MVC5:

document.getElementById('theID').value = 'new value';

Depending on the usecase it makes a difference whether you use javascript (element.value = x) or jQuery $(element).val(x);

When x is undefined jQuery results in an empty String whereas javascript results in "undefined" as a String.

document.getElementById('gadget_url').value = 'your value';

I'm not using YUI, but my issue was that I had duplicate ID's on the page (was working inside a dialog and forgot about the page underneath).

Changing the ID so it was unique allowed me to use the methods listed in Sangeet's answer.

Shortest

gadget_url.value=''

addGadgetUrl.addEventListener('click', () => {
   gadget_url.value = '';
});

<div>
  <p>URL</p>
  <input type="text" name="gadget_url" id="gadget_url" style="width: 350px;" class="input" value="some value" />
  <input type="button" id="addGadgetUrl" value="add gadget" />
  <br>
  <span id="error"></span>
</div>

This is the shortest working solution (JSFiddle).