I know this issue has been touched on here but I have not found a viable solution for my situation yet, so I\'d like to but the brain trust back to work and see what can be
Edited from the jquery docs..
$("textarea").change( function() { // check input ($(this).val()) for validity here });
Thats for detecting the changes. The clean would probably be a regex of sorts
edited above to look for a textarea not a textbox