[Solved] jQuery append text to textarea

[marcdefiant]

Hey guys, I have a little script here to make links.

it has two input textareas which will take the link and text inputted and make a shortcode for a user.

My jQuery is as follows:

$(function(){

$('#addLink').click(function(){

var link = $('#link').val();

var text = $('#linkText').val();

$('#edit').append("n" +'[link:' +text +'|' +link +']');

$('#link').val('http://');

$('#linkText').val('');

});

});

It works fine…. Up until I edit anything in the textarea manually, then the code doesn’t want to append the text to the textarea. I have a live version on my test site right now. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

[Chris Coyier]

is the .append() the problem? Usually textareas are edited by using .val() to change the current value. You could pull in the current value, append, and put back.

var $edit = $("#edit");

var curValue = $edit.val();

var newValue = curValue + "whatever new stuff here";

$edit.val(newValue);

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