Question

I am attempting to set a value in a textarea field using jquery with the following code:

$('textarea#ExampleMessage').attr('value', result.exampleMessage); 

The issue is, once this code executes, it is not altering the text in the textarea?

However when performing an alert($('textarea#ExampleMessage').attr('value')) the newly set value is returned?

Answer 1

Have you tried val?

$('textarea#ExampleMessage').val(result.exampleMessage);