Get the default value of a textarea using Jquery -

how default value of textarea using jquery. referred following question default text on textarea jquery? getting undefined answer

html:

<textarea id="comments">dsfdtert</textarea> 

jquery:

$(document).ready(function(){     alert($('#comments').data('defaultval')); }); 

see fiddle : http://jsfiddle.net/kritika/7cmec/

on pageload, you'd use text() or val() methods default text in textarea:

$(document).ready(function(){     alert($('#comments').text()); }); 

fiddle

to set default text data variable later use, you'd do:

$(document).ready(function(){     $('#comments').data('default', $('#comments').text()); }); 

and later can call

var default = $('#comments').data('default'); 

to retrieve it