Ever wanted to convert a HTML form with all it's fields and values to a multi-dimensional JavaScript object?
Here is the easiest way, no 3rd party libraries, only vanilla JavaScript.
| Prototype.js | Form.serialize($('test'), true); |
Creates a JavaScript object but it's not multi-dimensional. In "settings[theme][type]": "dark" the key is a string. Tested with the latest built version from git, 1.7.1 throws errors. |
| jQuery | $('#form').serializeArray() |
Creates a JavaScript array of objects, ready to be encoded as a JSON string. It takes in account the W3C rules for successful controls.
Output is like [Object, Object, Object ...] |
| Backbone.Syphon | Backbone.Syphon.serialize(this); called in a Backbone.View |
Creates a multi-dimensional JavaScript object with only a few limitations. Has the ability to include/exclude fields. |
| dojo.formToObject | domForm.toObject("myId") |
Depends on dojo framework. Disabled form elements, buttons, elements with just an id attribute but no name attribute, and other non-valued HTML elements are skipped. |
| jQuery.serializeObject | $('form').serializeObject(); |
Plugin for jQuery. |
| jQuery.serializeForm | $('#test').serializeForm(); |
Plugin for jQuery. |
| jQuery.serializeJSON | $('#test').serializeJSON() |
Adds the method .serializeJSON() to jQuery, that serializes a form into a JavaScript Object with the same format as the default Ruby on Rails request params hash. |
| plain JavaScript | new formToObject('form') |
Creates a multi-dimensional JavaScript object with all the field names and values. |
IE 8, Firefox 3.5, Chrome, Safari, Opera 10, every mobile browser.
<!-- Include the method in your library. -->
<script src="/js/formToObject.js"></script>Using the form's id value:
// console.log(myFormObj);
var myFormObj = new formToObject('myFormId');Using the actual DOM Node:
var formNode = document.getElementById('myFormId');
var myFormObj = new formToObject(formNode);
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