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

I use this workaround:

if (window.opera)
{
  document.addEventListener('focus', function(event){
    if (event.target instanceof HTMLTextAreaElement)
    {
      event.target.contentEditable = true;
      event.target.contentEditable = false;
    }
  }, true);
}