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how to get the value of a textarea in jquery?

I have the following HTML:

<div id="textdescription"></div>

And the following jQuery (var gets value from a form textarea):

var description = $('#inputDescription').html();
$('#textdescription').html(description);

How can I get the value into #description

Answer 1

val() : val() method is primarily used to get the values of form elements such as input, select and textarea.

html(): Get the HTML contents of the first element in the set of matched elements.

text(): Get the combined text contents of each element in the set of matched elements, including their descendants.

   var description = $('#inputDescription').val();
     $('#textdescription').html(description);

see demo here JsFiddle Demo