title: how to get the value of a textarea in jquery?
body: <p>i have this form and im trying to get the value from the text area. for some reason it doesn't want to.</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;form action="/profile/index/sendmessage" method="post" enctype="application/x-www-form-urlencoded"&gt;
      &lt;div class="upload_form"&gt;
          &lt;dt id="message-label"&gt;&lt;label class="optional" for="message"&gt;Enter Message&lt;/label&gt;&lt;/dt&gt;
          &lt;dd id="message-element"&gt;
          &lt;textarea cols="60" rows="5" id="message" name="message"&gt;&lt;/textarea&gt;&lt;/dd&gt;
          &lt;dt id="id-label"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/dt&gt;
          &lt;dd id="id-element"&gt;
          &lt;input type="hidden" id="id" value="145198" name="id"&gt;&lt;/dd&gt;
          &lt;dt id="send_message-label"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/dt&gt;
          &lt;dd id="send_message-element"&gt;
          &lt;input type="submit" class="sendamessage" value="Send" id="send_message" name="send_message"&gt;&lt;/dd&gt;
      &lt;/div&gt;
  &lt;/form&gt;
  
  
  $("input.sendamessage").click(function(event) {
      event.preventDefault();
  
      var message = $('textarea#message').html();
      var id      = $('input#id').val();
  
      console.log(message + '-' + id);
  });
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>or <a href="http://jsfiddle.net/patrioticcow/SvbZJ/1/">jsfiddle</a></p>
  
  <p>any ideas?</p>