How do I access the array submit() calls in the dom?

Question

I want to grab all the inputs inside a form, in order to submit them. The point of this is to use jquery's ajax to submit a dynamically sized form. Surely there must be an array inside the dom somewhere which i can just do something like...
docment.forms['form'].elements which only lists inputs for that form, meaning I can loop through them and grab their values to play around with?

Answer 1

You can use the :input selector for this.

$('#formid:input')

Alternatively, you can also use the jQuery.serialize() function to serialize all inputs into a ready-to-use query string for the jQuery.ajax()'s data parameter.

$('#formid').submit(function() {
    alert($(this).serialize());
    return false;
});

Answer 2

jQuery(document.forms['form'].elements)