When do I use .val() vs [removed]?

Question

In JQuery when trying to access elements, I see that if I have a form (lets say a textarea), and I want to get the text inside of it, I must use

Answer 1

.val() is used to get/replace input elements values in jQuery, alternative in JS is .value.

innerHTML or jQuery's .html() is used to get/replace the whole markup inside an element, not input elements.

text() is used almost the same as JS innertHTML, only it gets/replaces the text inside an element, not all the tags etc. It's bassically the equivalent of JS innerText

Reference links about innerHTML, innerText, val(), text(), html()