title: make the text inside a text area become a variable once a button is clicked
body: <p>I would like to return all the text inside a textarea or an input as a variable on button click using jQuery or javascript.</p>
  
  <p>A .select() function does not seem to do this, and spits out a lot of css properties when logged</p>
  
  <p>How should I go about doing this?</p>