Collect all the items in a form in jQuery

Question

How do I collect all the checkboxes and dropdown list items in jQuery for saving?

Accepted Answer

Or, for recent versions of jquery you can use:

http://docs.jquery.com/Ajax/serialize - to a URL encoded string `person.name=john&person.age=20`

or

http://docs.jquery.com/Ajax/serializeArray - to JSON

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