accessing text in textarea

hi, im trying to access text in a textarea via the DOM. the textarea id is area Ive tried:

Code JavaScript:

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var myvar = document.getElementById("area");
var area_text = myvar.TextNode;

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but it doesnt seem to work....can anyone clarify this for me?

Thanks

Just use textarea.value...

Code JavaScript:

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var myvar = document.getElementById("area");
var area_text = myvar.value;

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ahh....i see. Thanks hexburner :)

I am just curious, where did you get TextNode from? A simple google search would have give you what you looked for.

Hi,

Yeah you're probably right and i did do a search for "accessing text in a textarea javascript" but it gave me links on how to access selected text in a textarea...so i just posted....maybe i shoulda looked harder :)

Anyways it doesnt work in this instance as its part of a ajax function. The ajax loads text in to a textarea for editing. I need a way to get at the edited version of the text and get it in to a javascript variable. At present all it does it get the version that was originally loaded in to the textarea before editing......

Any ideas how to do that?