title: Getting Textarea Value with jQuery
body: <p>This is driving me crazy - why doesn't my code work?</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;a id="send-thoughts" href=""&gt;Click&lt;/a&gt;
  &lt;textarea id="#message"&gt;&lt;/textarea&gt;
  
              jQuery("a#send-thoughts").click(function() {
                  var thought = jQuery("textarea#message").val();
                  alert(thought);
              });
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>alerts undefined.</p>
  
  <p><a href="http://jsfiddle.net/q5EXG/" rel="noreferrer">http://jsfiddle.net/q5EXG/</a></p>