How do i fetch a single value from serialize()

Question

I have a form and i fetch the values of form using jQuery .serialize(); for example to fetch the form data i use the following.

var formData = $('form').serialize();

now the variable formData holds the following value.

subcategoryname=aaaa&prefix=AA&categoryid=1

from the above string i want to fetch only the value of categoryid i.e 1 here, how do i do it using jQuery?

Answer 1

I think you should use .serializeArray() to make it as an object which makes it much easier to access.