How do I clear a textarea instance?

[hobo at SDF.ORG]

Salutations,

I currently have a textarea instance external to a form, and when a user 
cancels or accepts the edit I want to clear the textarea - clear the 
window, clear the buffer, reset the input-pointer. However, it looks like 
the clear method only clears the window and nothing else. How do I go 
about clearing the buffer, resetting the input pointer, and moving the 
cursor back to the beginning of the textarea?

Thank you in advance,
Lance

hobo at sdf.org
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