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.

<form action="/profile/index/sendmessage" method="post" enctype="application/x-www-form-urlencoded">
    <div class="upload_form">
        <dt id="message-label"><label class="optional" for="message">Enter Message</label></dt>
        <dd id="message-element">
        <textarea cols="60" rows="5" id="message" name="message"></textarea></dd>
        <dt id="id-label">&nbsp;</dt>
        <dd id="id-element">
        <input type="hidden" id="id" value="145198" name="id"></dd>
        <dt id="send_message-label">&nbsp;</dt>
        <dd id="send_message-element">
        <input type="submit" class="sendamessage" value="Send" id="send_message" name="send_message"></dd>
    </div>
</form>


$("input.sendamessage").click(function(event) {
    event.preventDefault();

    var message = $('textarea#message').html();
    var id      = $('input#id').val();

    console.log(message + '-' + id);
});

or jsfiddle

any ideas?

Answer 1

Value of textarea is also taken with val method:

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