how to get the value of a textarea in jquery?

Question

i have this form and im trying to get the value from the text area. for some reason it doesn\'t want to.

Answer 1

You should check the textarea is null before you use val() otherwise, you will get undefined error.

if ($('textarea#message') != undefined) {
   var message = $('textarea#message').val();
}

Then, you could do whatever with message.