jQuery Grab Value of Dynamic Textarea

Question

Suppose you have a textarea (id="fred") that appends (.append()) or replaces (.html()) another element. The textarea's submit button is called via delegate to send the modified text blurb in the textarea... How do you select the modified textblurb, as opposed to what was originally put in the textarea via the first delegate?

Answer 1

mea culpa... val() does the trick