title: Setting the value/text of event.target with jQuery
body: <p>I have the following HTML:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;a class="small" href="/comments/new"&gt;Write New Comment&lt;/a&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>And the following js:</p>
  
  <pre><code>$(document).ready(function () {                                               
     $('.comment &gt; a').click( function (event) {                                
           var url = event.target.href                                          
           $('.comment_area').load(url)                                         
            **event.target.text = ""**
            event.preventDefault()                                              
         })                                                                     
     })
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I am trying to set the text of the link to blank, but can't seem to find a way to do this. I've also tried:</p>
  
  <pre><code>event.target.text("")
  event.target.value = ""
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and none of these work. Is this even possible to do from the JavaScript side?</p>