JQuery val() does not work for textarea in Opera

Question

I am displaying a modal dialog using jQuery. This dialog has a textarea control on it. But while submitting this dialog, the value of this textarea

Answer 1

you may have come across a very obscure bug referred to in a blog post on the Opera sitepatching blog 1 as "PATCH-287, Hack to make script see typed value in TEXTAREA on blog.ebuddy.com. Opera fails to read correct value from a previously hidden textarea".

I'm a little bit reluctant to recomment workarounds without seeing the full code though.