Meteor: Most "Meteoric" way to clear form fields - meteor

Question

I'm working on an example CRUD application with Meteor.js and am not sure how best to empty out the fields of a form. I need it in two places: when the Submit button is clicked, and when the Cancel button is clicked.
I implemented it this way by creating a utility function called clearFormFields() that just uses jQuery to empty their contents, but it doesn't feel as "Meteoric" as it should; I feel it should be scoped better so it doesn't have a global visibility. What am I doing wrong?
function clearFormFields() {
$("#description").val("");
$("#priority").val("");
}
Template.todoNew.events({
'click #cancel': function(event) {
event.preventDefault();
Session.set('editing', false);
clearFormFields();
},
'submit form': function(event) {
event.preventDefault();
var theDocument = {
description: event.target.description.value,
priority: event.target.priority.value
};
if (Session.get("editing")) {
Meteor.call("updateTodo", theDocument, Session.get('theDocumentId'))
}
else {
Meteor.call("insertTodo", theDocument);
}
Session.set('editing', false);
clearFormFields();
/* Could do this twice but hate the code duplication.
description: event.target.description.value = "";
priority: event.target.priority.value = "";
*/
}
});

Answer 1

You could use the native reset method of the DOM form node ?
"submit form":function(event,template){
event.preventDefault();
// ...
template.find("form").reset();
}
http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/met_form_reset.asp

Answer 2

The DOM object that originated the event can be accessed and reset from through event.target.reset();
"submit form":function(event){
event.preventDefault();
//...
event.target.reset();
}
http://docs.meteor.com/#/full/eventmaps