serialize without a form?

Question

Hello all i'm turning objects "on (adding the class .active) and off" on a html page with html objects, not forms. And on every click i want it to create an array of the items with the class .active but i can't seem to get any results?!

is this in the right direction?

var data = $('li.tagToggle.active').serializeArray();
// li id format is 'id_0001' 
alert(data)
$.post("/scripts/php/process.php",{ 
         'data[]': data,
         funcName : 'tagResults',
         tagResults : '1'
}) 

keeps alerting and empty window but when i use this on a form it grabs all the objects with the class .active

any pointers welcome!

Answer 1

You can serialize all inputs inside an element like this:

var data = $('YourId :input').serialize()

Answer 2

This is what I'm using

(function($){
$.fn.serializeAny = function() {
    var ret = [];
    $.each( $(this).find(':input'), function() {
        ret.push( encodeURIComponent(this.name) + "=" + encodeURIComponent( $(this).val() ) );
    });

    return ret.join("&").replace(/%20/g, "+");
}
})(jQuery);

to use it in your case $('li.tagToggle.active').serializeAny();