Last night I threw together a quick plug-in that can be used to get/set the value of any form field. This works with checkbox, radio and select elements--which the val() method doesn't handle.
I basically just took the core from an old JSAPI I wrote (qForms) and grab the core getter and setters. Anyway, I've got preview of the plug-in up at: http://www.pengoworks.com/workshop/jquery/field.plugin.htm My intention is too add some of the functionality that people like about qForms into this plug-in as time permits. I'm interested in hearing your feedback on this. -Dan
