emptying the textarea in IE

I'm trying to empty wherever value/text in the textarea, when a file is uploaded from input. It works fine with FF and Chr开发者_C百科ome, but IE doesn't do the thing. Is there anyway to fix this?

Many thanks in advance.

$('input[type=file]').change(function(){
   $("textarea#txt_id").val('');
});

<textarea name="txt" id="txt_id" rows="8" cols="64"></textarea>

<input type="file" name="file" id="file_id" />

(Source: #955630)

You may need to use .html() instead of .val()

I would change

 $('input[type=file]').change(function(){
   $("textarea#txt_id").val('');
});

<textarea name="txt" id="txt_id" rows="8" cols="64"></textarea>

<input type="file" name="file" id="file_id" />

to

 $('input[type=file]').change(function(){
   $("textarea#txt_id").html("");
});

<textarea name="txt" id="txt_id" rows="8" cols="64"></textarea>

<input type="file" name="file" id="file_id" />

You aren't actually modifying the 'value' attribute like in an input, only the HTML text between the textarea element.