I'm setting value in textarea using jQuery val().

   later  I need to retrieve value from the same text area, but it's empty

       <textarea class="smalltextarea" ></textarea>

       <input type="submit" name="btnSubmit" value="Submit" id="btnSubmit">

       $(document).ready(function () {

      $("#btnSubmit").click(function(){

      jQuery("textarea.smalltextarea").val("Test");

               var getText = $("textarea.smalltextarea").val();

      alert(getText);

      });

       });

    https://jsfiddle.net/d9Ljuo2v/4/`

   Anyone can help?