[jQuery] Getting form element values?

[jQuery] Getting form element values?

Hi,
Just evaluating jQuery as an alternative to Prototype at work, and one
thing I've found is that there doesn't seem to be a jQuery way to grab
the values of form elements?
In Prototype I would do $('my_input').value, but obviously the jQuery
$ function doesn't return regular objects - is there another way of
doing this that I've missed, or do you have to go back to
document.getElementById('my_input').value if you want form values?
Cheers,
Matthew.
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