<textarea name='Status'> </textarea>
<input type='button' value='Status Update'>
You have few problems with your code like using .
for concatenation
Try this -
$(function () {
$('input').on('click', function () {
var Status = $(this).val();
$.ajax({
url: 'Ajax/StatusUpdate.php',
data: {
text: $("textarea[name=Status]").val(),
Status: Status
},
dataType : 'json'
});
});
});