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

all Values is always taken with .val().

see the code bellow:

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

Answer 2

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.

Answer 3

You can also get value by name instead of id like this:

var message = $('textarea:input[name=message]').val();

Answer 4

you should use val() instead of html()

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

Answer 5

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();

Answer 6

in javascript :

document.getElementById("message").value