title: reading text from textarea in webdriver
body: <p>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 <code>.getAttribute()</code>:</p>
  
  <pre><code>     WebElement text = wd.findElement(By.id("edit-pi-sample-geo-id"));
  
       String textagain = text.getAttribute("aaaa");
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>How do I fix this? </p>