clearing out submitted form

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page.replace_html 'blog_entry_comment_body', '' page.replace_html 'blog_entry_comment_subject', ''

this isn't doing what you think it is doing. it replaces the contents of tags, not the values. (actually, replace_html will work on a textarea, but will not on type="text" input)

you want to do something like:

# blog_entry_comment_body => textarea page << "$('blog_entry_comment_body').value = ''" # also works #page.replace_html('blog_entry_comment_body', '')

# blog_entry_comment_subject => input type="text" page << "$('blog_entry_comment_subject').value = ''"

you are submitting the form via ajax, so therefore the page is not being 'reloaded' and thus firefox or IE is not auto-filing the forms for you at this point because you never left the page.

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You can also use Collection Proxies in RJS like so :

page.select('div textarea').each do |element|   element.value="" end

This takes all of the text areas in a div and replaces the value. You could also use the div name like so :

page.select('#id_of_textarea_here').each do |element|   element.value="" end

So if I had a <textarea id="id_of_textarea_here" ...

That should replace the value.

Hamza