jQuery get textarea text

[shehriyari]

For some reason this line in my code does not work with IE8, whereas it does with everything else [I mean non-IE]:

value = $("FORM TEXTAREA[name='param']").val();

IE8 reports

[shehriyari]

IE reports "Object does not support this property or method".

I tried to google this case, in general, with textarea - but it seems textareaObject has valid value() method in JScript, so what is the problem?

I tried text() method with the object, but this time all browsers failed to work as intended.

[dmethvin]

Test case for #4844; works in IE8.0.1601.18702