noob question - markdown.min.js

[David Orsini]

I am attempting to use the Bootstrap Markdown plugin (http://toopay.github.io/bootstrap-markdown/).  I really don't know a ton about javascript or bootstrap.  I bought a template hoping it was plug and play.  Anyway, my code is as follows:

<textarea name="someNotes" data-provide="markdown" rows="10" placeholder="sample notes"></textarea>

This is of course within a <form> tag.  When the submit button is clicked I am dumping all form data to the screen and the form variable someNotes is not there.  If I get rid of the data-provide attribute, then that variable does show up in the dump.  So I guess I don't understand how to pass the data along from this WYSIWYG editor to the server on form submit.  Can anyone help me?  Thanks!  Sorry again for the noob question and hope this is even the correct group to post this in.