You can revert to the initial textarea by calling the `toTextArea` method. Note that this clears up the autosave (if enabled) associated with it. The textarea will retain any text from the destroyed SimpleMDE instance.
```JavaScript
var simplemde = new SimpleMDE();
...
simplemde.toTextArea();
simplemde = null;
```
## Useful methods
The following self-explanatory methods may be of use while developing with SimpleMDE.