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<p><font style="vertical-align: inherit;"><font style="vertical-align: inherit;">I have a form that inserts another form:</font></font></p>
<pre class="prettyprint-override"><code class="hljs xml"><span class="hljs-tag"><<span class="hljs-name">form</span>></span>
  <span class="hljs-tag"><<span class="hljs-name">input</span> <span class="hljs-attr">type</span>=<span class="hljs-string">"text"</span> <span class="hljs-attr">name</span>=<span class="hljs-string">"main[name]"</span>></span>
  <span class="hljs-tag"><<span class="hljs-name">textarea</span> <span class="hljs-attr">name</span>=<span class="hljs-string">"main[body]"</span>></span><span class="hljs-tag"></<span class="hljs-name">textarea</span>></span>
  <span class="hljs-tag"><<span class="hljs-name">div</span> <span class="hljs-attr">id</span>=<span class="hljs-string">"embedded"</span>></span>
    <span class="hljs-tag"><<span class="hljs-name">input</span> <span class="hljs-attr">type</span>=<span class="hljs-string">"text"</span> <span class="hljs-attr">name</span>=<span class="hljs-string">"main[embedded][name]"</span>></span>
    <span class="hljs-tag"><<span class="hljs-name">textarea</span> <span class="hljs-attr">name</span>=<span class="hljs-string">"main[embedded][body]"</span>></span><span class="hljs-tag"></<span class="hljs-name">textarea</span>></span>
  <span class="hljs-tag"></<span class="hljs-name">div</span>></span>
<span class="hljs-tag"></<span class="hljs-name">form</span>></span>
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<p><font style="vertical-align: inherit;"><font style="vertical-align: inherit;">I only need to serialize the inline form.</font></font></p>
<p> <code>$('#embedded').serialize()</code><font style="vertical-align: inherit;"><font style="vertical-align: inherit;"> leads to an empty string.</font></font></p> </div>
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<p><font style="vertical-align: inherit;"><font style="vertical-align: inherit;">You are not pasting another form, you are pasting </font></font><code>div</code><font style="vertical-align: inherit;"><font style="vertical-align: inherit;">.</font></font></p>
<p><font style="vertical-align: inherit;"><font style="vertical-align: inherit;">A method </font></font><a href="https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&pto=aue&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=ru&sp=nmt4&tl=en&u=" rel="nofollow noreferrer" src=""><code>serialize()</code></a><font style="vertical-align: inherit;"><font style="vertical-align: inherit;">can only be called on elements </font></font><code>form</code><font style="vertical-align: inherit;"><font style="vertical-align: inherit;">or on the element itself </font></font><code>form</code><font style="vertical-align: inherit;"><font style="vertical-align: inherit;">.</font></font></p>
<pre class="prettyprint-override"><code class="hljs javascript"><span class="hljs-keyword">var</span> serialized = $(<span class="hljs-string">'#embedded'</span>).find(<span class="hljs-string">':input'</span>).serialize();
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<blockquote> <p><font style="vertical-align: inherit;"><font style="vertical-align: inherit;">A method </font></font><code>.serialize()</code><font style="vertical-align: inherit;"><font style="vertical-align: inherit;">can act on a jQuery object that selects individual form elements, such as </font></font><code><input></code><font style="vertical-align: inherit;"><font style="vertical-align: inherit;">, </font></font><code><textarea></code><font style="vertical-align: inherit;"><font style="vertical-align: inherit;">and </font></font><code><select></code><font style="vertical-align: inherit;"><font style="vertical-align: inherit;">. </font><font style="vertical-align: inherit;">However, it is usually easier to select the tag itself </font></font><code><form></code><font style="vertical-align: inherit;"><font style="vertical-align: inherit;">for serialization:</font></font></p>
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<p><font style="vertical-align: inherit;"><font style="vertical-align: inherit;">I have not tested this, but you could try:</font></font></p>
<pre class="prettyprint-override"><code class="hljs javascript">$(<span class="hljs-string">"<form/>"</span>).html($(<span class="hljs-string">'#embedded'</span>).clone()).serialize()
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