Is it possible to get textarea value without submitting?

[pneudralics]

I was wondering if it's possible to get the value from a textarea without a user submitting. I have a page that automatically populates the textarea with some stuff. I was wondering if I can some how get the values from the textarea.

<textarea name="textarea">
some stuff goes here
</textarea>
<?php
//php goes here to get "some stuff goes here" from textarea
?>

[PFMaBiSmAd]

Get the value where? Your question does not exactly have a question in it. And if you mean get the value on the web server, you must somehow send the value to the server in a http/https request. That is the only way that information can get from a browser to a web server.

[yettti]

What your trying to do would probably be achieved via AJAX... try googling it.

The idea is you get the value with JavaScript then via JavaScript you make a request to the server..

[Vorspire]

You could use some simple JavaScript to do it maybe. Depends on what you want to do with the result data... If you really need to assign the data to a PHP variable, then you'll have to use AJAX, or re-submit the page in a hidden IFrame or something similar