I am describing some html elements as value of thickbox and its possible to fetch that elements inside textarea
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<textarea id="txtarea_id"><div class="div_class">country</div></textarea>
I need to fetch the div element inside textarea
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possible duplicate of How do I extract DOM object from within textarea ?Jan Hančič– Jan Hančič2010-12-24 13:40:51 +00:00Commented Dec 24, 2010 at 13:40
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<!ELEMENT TEXTAREA - - (#PCDATA) -- multi-line text field -->
— http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/interact/forms.html#h-17.7
A textarea element can contain only PCDATA, no elements of any kind. The code you have presented is invalid HTML.
You could have the value of a textarea be some text that could be presented as HTML:
<textarea id="txtarea_id"><div class="div_class">country</div></textarea>
… but the content can only be text, not elements.
You can fetch the data using jQuery's val() method (or just use the standard DOM .value).
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dheerosaur
The question was ambiguous, I guess. OP said "I am describing some html elements as value of thickbox" and, in the end, "I need to fetch the div element inside textarea".
Use jQuery's .val()
alert($('#txtarea_id').val());
If you want to convert that text to an HTML element, use $ and wrap it like this.
$($('#txtarea_id').val());
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you can not use HTML tags inside a textarea. It will be encoded and you will see "<div class="div_class">country</div>" as the default text in your textarea.
I am wondering why are you doing this?
You can give a class to the textarea and then define css for that class.
