Integration of Mike Alsup's excellent form serialization code. The benefits are as follows:

- New method: .serializeArray()
This returns an array of name/value pairs representing the contents of a form, or individual input elements.
- Enhancement: .serialize()
The results are correct now (as opposed to the mess from before), and allows you to serializes forms directly (rather than just the input elements).
- Enhancement: .val()
This now returns the correct value when dealing wih selects. Additionally, when dealing with multiple selects, it returns an array of values.

Based upon Mike's code:
http://malsup.com/jquery/form/comp/form.js

and test suite:
http://malsup.com/jquery/form/comp/test.html

1 files changed, 26 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/src/jquery/jquery.js b/src/jquery/jquery.js
index 9e59f9dad..d5a32e24d 100644
--- a/src/jquery/jquery.js
+++ b/src/jquery/jquery.js
@@ -306,9 +306,32 @@ jQuery.fn = jQuery.prototype = {
 	},
 	
 	val: function( val ) {
-		return val == undefined ?
-			( this.length ? this[0].value : null ) :
-			this.attr( "value", val );
+		if ( val == undefined ) {
+		    if ( this.length ) {
+		    	var elem = this[0];
+		    	
+		    	// We need to handle select boxes special
				if ( jQuery.nodeName(elem, "select") ) {
					var index = elem.selectedIndex,
+						a = [],
+						options = elem.options,
+						one = elem.type == "select-one";
+					
+					// Nothing was selected
					if ( index < 0 )
+						return null;

+
+					// Loop through all the selected options
					for ( var i = one ? index : 0, max = one ? index + 1 : options.length; i < max; i++ ) {
+						var option = options[i];
						if ( option.selected ) {
							// Get the specifc value for the option
							var val = jQuery.browser.msie && !option.attributes["value"].specified ? option.text : option.value;
+							
+							// We don't need an array for one selects
							if ( one )
+								return val;
+							
+							// Multi-Selects return an array
							a.push(val);
						}
					}
+					
					return a;
+					
+				// Everything else, we just grab the value
				} else
+					return this[0].value.replace(/\r/g, "");
+			}
+		} else
+			return this.attr( "value", val );
 	},
 	
 	html: function( val ) {