title: Jquery get input value inside list which is inside a div
body: <p>I have something like the following</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;div id="container"&gt;
        &lt;ul id="name_list"&gt;
            &lt;li class="name"&gt;
               &lt;input type="hidden" class="name_val" value="5" /&gt;
            &lt;/li&gt;
        &lt;/ul&gt;
  &lt;/div&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I am trying to get the value of the input. So far I have the following Jquery statment.</p>
  
  <pre><code>$("#container li.name input.name_val").val();
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>this does not work anyone know a better way?</p>