hx-preserve but only on certain conditions?

[yatesco]

Hi there. I'm using the new https://github.com/bigskysoftware/idiomorph, which is working well except it is not preserving the content of my textareas. This is unfortunate as I have a poll every second which reloads the page so whatever you type in gets reset within a second. Not great UX ;-).

I know I can stick an id on the textarea element and use hx-preserve, but once the user submits the form I do actually want to reset the textareas.

I want to express "preserve the textareas during the periodic polling's hx-post but not on this particular hx-post". Is that possible?

I can also look into hx-sync as well, but I don't know - that feels pretty fragile. Not the code - the coupling between the elements.

How are other people handling this?