title: Jquery Get Value of Previous Input Text Field
body: <p>I'm trying to alert a previous text field's value. Here's what I've tried so far but no dice:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;div&gt;
      &lt;input type="text" value="foo"&gt;
  &lt;/div&gt;
  &lt;div&gt;
      &lt;select onchange="alert($(this).prev('input').val())"&gt;
          &lt;option value="bar1"&gt;bar1&lt;/option&gt;
          &lt;option value="bar2"&gt;bar2&lt;/option&gt;
      &lt;/select&gt;
  &lt;/div&gt;
  </code></pre>