I ran into this and discovered serialize won't find a field if it does not have a name tag. I see you only have ids in your code above.
On Mar 6, 1:39 pm, jayturley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mar 6, 1:36 pm, "Mike Alsup" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > indicating that the form and its inputs can be found, the lines below > > > do NOT work: > > > > var formString = jQuery("#new_property").serialize(); > > > var formString = jQuery("#new_property:input").serialize(); > > > Those lines look like they should work. How exactly does it fail? > > Does it return an empty string? Did you try stepping through the > > serialize fn in the debugger to see why it failed? > > It fails by returning an empty string. I stepped through the serialize > fn in FireBug, but didn't see anything meaningful to me.