I'm trying to make a function that when executed clears all textareas. Initially, this seemed like a really easy feat, but it didn't work.

This is what I had tried:

<script>
function clear(){
document.getElementsByTagName('textarea').value='';
}
</script>

<textarea>Test1</textarea>
<textarea>test2</textarea>

<input type="button" value="clear" onclick="clear()">

I'm not sure why it isn't working. Help is much appreciated.

returns an array of all textareas. To specify a particular one you'll need e.g.



where "0" is its index number in the array (first one is zero). If there are many (or an unknown number of) textareas you probably want to create a FOR loop and clear each of them in it.

Doh! I can't believe I forgot that. Many thanks!