reading text from textarea in webdriver

Question

I am trying to read text from textarea when writing a webdriver test in Java. For some reason I am getting null back when I use .getAttribute():

Answer 1

I got this working. Here is the solution-

    WebElement text = wd.findElement(By.id("edit-pi-analytics-tms-id"));
    String textagain = text.getAttribute("value");

I was using the actual value in the textarea in the previous code example i posted which was kinda silly. Thanks guys for your help