Error getting textarea value using jQuery

Question

Ok, my last post was unsuccessful, so try again.

If you go to www.davekiss.com and click on the icon in the upper right corner, you will see an individual implementation of the jQuery slider. Click the "Contact Us" button and fill in the text box.

Basically, I am trying to store the value in this textarea of ​​a javascript variable, but for some reason this variable is undefined.

The code in question:

jQuery("a#send-thoughts").click(function() { var thought = jQuery("textarea#message").val(); alert(thought); /*jQuery.ajax({ type: "POST", url: "process.php", data: "message=" + message, success: function(msg){ alert( "Data Saved: " + msg ); } });*/ }); 

Any ideas?

Answer 1

Your text box has the name "message", but not an identifier. Your selector selects based on the identifier, but such an element does not exist. Either give textarea the identifier for the “message,” or change your selector to search by name (probably the previous option is preferable).

Answer 2

You should use html() instead of val() .

Answer 3

Try to get .text() :

 var thought = jQuery("textarea#message").text(); 

Answer 4

You also have a syntax error on line 232. You are missing ) for your add function.