[jQuery] Getting null when trying to retrieve textarea value

[jQuery] Getting null when trying to retrieve textarea value


I am trying to get the value of a textarea with the following code,
however it is returning null all the time.
var curText= $("input[@id=myText]").val();
alert(curText);
<textarea name="myText" rows="5" cols="20" id="myText" style="width:
250px;"></textarea>
Is there something else I need to do?