clone() doesn't clone the textarea's text value

[bluedevil2k]

When calling clone() on an entire DIV that contains multiple textarea elements, the cloned textarea's returns blank on a call to .val(), while the original still returns the correct text on .val().

Here's some sample code to reproduce the problem (assume there are multiple DIV's on the page, each with multiple textareas with text in them).

jQuery("div").each(function(){

var clone = jQuery(this).clone(); console.log(jQuery(this).find("textarea").eq(0).val()); will output correct text

console.log(clone.find("textarea").eq(0).val()); will output blank

});

This was seen in Firefox 3.5 and IE8.

[dmethvin]

Closed dup #5641 with further discussion.

[szrudi]

will this be fixed? as I see it's a bug for more than 2 years now.. (same as #3016)

[addyosmani]

Closing as a duplicate of #3016.

[addyosmani]

Duplicate of #3016.

[anonymous]

3 years and no patch? anyone interested in resolving this? I have no idea how to propose patched code to the jQuery team

[scottgonzalez]

Replying to anonymous:

3 years and no patch? anyone interested in resolving this?

You should read the discussions in the duplicates. Specifically, read ​http://bugs.jquery.com/ticket/3016#comment:17

I have no idea how to propose patched code to the jQuery team

Send a pull request on GitHub: ​http://contribute.jquery.org/code/