I was looking for a jQuery way of grabbing the values of a subsection of input fields. I know it is more complicated then just getting the $().val() of items because of selection elements. I found the plugin called Values but it was a bit more than I needed. I only need to get values not to set them. Plus I don’t want to get values from elements other than inputs, so there is no need to have the function grab text when it cannot find values. So for now I will use this plugin but I want to modify it in the future to serve this narrow purpose. (I like small clean simple code and not bloat).
–some time later–
Lol. It appears that sometimes the solution is right there and I over think the problem. I can do what I wanted to do with this simple line:
$('container class').find('input, select').serialize()
Well problem solved, on to the next one 
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