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 don't need to use .html(). You should go with .val().

From the doc of .val():

The .val() method is primarily used to get the values of form elements such as input, select and textarea. When called on an empty collection, it returns undefined.

var message = $('#message').val();