*Update: *
Please take a note of @mathoiland’s answer, “It looks like Fancybox 2 deprecated the onClosed callback. It now uses afterClose.” if you are using FancyBox 2.x
Pass the onClosed option to the fancybox function.
i.e:
$("<YOUR-SELECTOR>").fancybox({
onClosed: function() {
$('#sub_cont').hide(250, function() {
$('#IDsearchform input').val('');
});
})
});