Allow sub-section of form to be serialized

[pbowyer]

Often I need to do partial form submissions (for inline AJAX lookups). The built-in serialize() and serializeArray() methods will only work when applied to the <form> itself, and not to sub-sections of the form.

Adding this behaviour would be great and mean I don't have to roll my own serialization code!

[pbowyer]

Demonstration file, showing how serialization doesn't work

[flesler]

serialize does accept single elements.

$('form *').filter('.foo').serialize()

[anonymous]

I have come across this, especially with steps forms any one fixed this yet?

[dmethvin]

As the comment above says, just serialize whichever elements you'd like.