Question

I have a form that uses jQuery to submit an ajax post and it serializes the form that is sent up. The code looks like this:

var form = $('form'); var action = form.attr('action'); var serializedForm = form.serialize(); $.post(action, serializedForm, function(data) {   ... }); 

The problem here is that if a field has trailing white space, the serialize function will turn those spaces to plus (+) signs, when they should be stripped.

Is there a way to get the fields trimmed without doing the following:

$('#name').val( jQuery.trim( $('#name') ) ); 

Answer 1

You could try looping through the object and triming everything.

//Serialize form as array var serializedForm = form.serializeArray(); //trim values for(var i =0, len = serializedForm.length;i<len;i++){   serializedForm[i] = $.trim(serializedForm[i]); } //turn it into a string if you wish serializedForm = $.param(serializedForm);