jQuery Text in in hidden DIV showing as a blank string
<p>I'm not sure why the following wouldn't be working.  I am getting a blank string when I attempt to retrieve the text from the FirstName textbox in my HTML.  The DIV is currently hidden, would that make any difference?  Any ideas?</p>

<p>jQuery:</p>

<pre><code> $.ajax({ url: 'go.aspx?FirstName=' + $("#FirstName").text()});
</code></pre>

<p>HTML:</p>

<pre><code>&lt;input name="FirstName" type="text" id="FirstName" style="width:240px;" /&gt;
</code></pre>
