[jQuery] Loading external text in to a text area?

[jQuery] Loading external text in to a text area?

<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Hello, I would like to know if I can load a small text from a external source into a textarea.
the external source is a php that will write some clean text depending on the vars received.
I know load() can do the job for a div but I don't think it will work for a textarea.
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