Question

<textarea name="test" id="text">
    text
 area
    one one
  two

    break above
last
</textarea>  

<span id="getvalues">get values</span>  

$("#getvalues").click(function(){

})

How can i get all values from this textarea from each line to javascript array?
This should:

• ignore whitespace – trim
• ignore white break

Next i would like make:

$.each(textareavalues, function(index, value) { 
  console.log('@' + value + '@'); 
});

This should show me:

@text@
@area@
@one one@
@two@
@break above@
@last@

LIVE EXAMPLE: http://jsfiddle.net/BW8Z2/1/

Answer 1

$("#getvalues").click(function(){
    var $textareavalues = $("#text").val();
    var x = $textareavalues.split('\n');
    $.each(x, function(index, value) {
      var text = $.trim(value);
      if(text !== "")
          console.log('@' + text + '@');
    });
});