Question

I know I can get the name/value relationship by using

$(#form).serializeArray();

But is there a way to get the whole enchilada, type, name and value with one call?

Answer 1

Use $("form :input")

Per the docs:

Description: Selects all input,
textarea, select and button elements.

Now to your question,

there a way to get the whole
enchilada, type, name and value with
one call?

If you simply want to loop through the items,

$("form :input").each(function(index, elm){
  //Do something amazing...
});

But if you want to return some sort of structure, you can use .map()

var items = $("form :input").map(function(index, elm) {
    return {name: elm.name, type:elm.type, value: $(elm).val()};
});

Or if you simply want to get the elements

$("form :input").get()

Example of this on jsfiddle