Question

When using PHP and I want to find out the data being posted, I simply dump the array $_POST which will provide me with the name= attribute of all html form elements that have been submitted input, select, textarea etc, and their value= attributes in an easy to read manner.

I’m wondering if Javascript or the jQuery library has a method/plugin that does the same thing for all html form elements on the page? This would be very useful for testing out client-side validation etc.

Any answers would be greatly appreciated, as this would help me save a lot of time debugging!

Answer 1

jQuery has the serializeArray method. If you call it on a form, you’ll get a list of objects containing names and values of fields in the form.