title: Textarea not getting updated text in jQuery
body: <p>So I have a razor view:</p>
  
  <pre><code>@{
      int i=1;
      foreach(var story in Model.Storylines)
      {
          &lt;span style="float:left;"&gt;Storyline @i&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="float:right; margin-right:5px;"&gt;Character Count: @story.CharCount&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
          &lt;textarea id=@("entry"+@i) rows="5" style="width:730px; overflow:auto;"&gt;@story.Description&lt;/textarea&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
          i++;
      }
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>So the textarea with id entry1 has a description like "this is a story" when the page initially loads. Once I type something into that text area, and then hit a button whose only function is:</p>
  
  <pre><code>alert($("#entry1").text());
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I still get "this is a story". Why isn't the textarea being updated with the text that I've typed in?</p>