Getting Textarea Value with jQuery

Question

This is driving me crazy - why doesn t my code work    lt a id  send-thoughts  href    gt Click lt  a gt   lt textarea id   message  gt  lt  textarea gt               jQuery  a send-thoughts   click function                     var thought   jQuery  textarea message   val                    alert thought                     alerts undefined   http   jsfiddle net q5EXG

User · Answer

change id   message  to id  message  on your textarea element   and by the way  just use this       send-thoughts        remember that you should only use ID s once and you can use classes over and over    https   css-tricks com the-difference-between-id-and-class

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try this    lt a id  send-thoughts  href    gt Click lt  a gt   lt textarea id  message  gt  lt  textarea gt   lt  -- lt textarea id   message  gt  lt  textarea gt -- gt               jQuery  a send-thoughts   click function                       var thought   jQuery  textarea message   val                    var thought       message   val                    alert thought

User · Answer

It can be done at easily like as         lt a id  send-thoughts  href    gt Click lt  a gt        lt textarea id  message  gt  lt  textarea gt              a send-thoughts   click function                 var thought       message   val                alert thought

User · Answer

you have id   message     should be id  message   http   jsfiddle net q5EXG 1

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By using new version of jquery  1 8 2   I amend the current code like in this links http   jsfiddle net q5EXG 97   By using the same code  I just change from jQuery to       lt a id  send-thoughts  href    gt Click lt  a gt   lt textarea id  message  gt  lt  textarea gt       send-thoughts   click function     var thought       message   val      alert thought

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