[jQuery] Getting form element values?

[jQuery] Getting form element values?

Hi, just a newbie side-question, that may help me... others.
Is JQuery an *alternative* to Prototype?
Or could *both* JQuery and Prototype be used?
Thanks.
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Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2006 4:31 AM
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Subject: [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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