title: How can I get an HTML tag’s value to send an HTML.Action()
body: <p>I have these lines of code:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;span 
    class="close-modal"
    onclick="@Html.Action("SaveNotes", "CallCenter", new { activityId = item.callIdKey, noteText = "test1" })"&gt;
    &amp;times;
  &lt;/span&gt;
  &amp;nbsp;
  Notes: &lt;br /&gt;
  &lt;textarea name="paragraph_text" rows="5" style="width:90%"&gt;
    @item.NoteText 
  &lt;/textarea&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I would like to replace <code>test1</code> from the <code>noteText</code> route variable and instead change it to whatever the value in the <code>&lt;textarea&gt;</code> tag is. </p>
  
  <p>Is there an elegant way of doing this without writing a giant block of jQuery code? </p>