If you have addresses[1].street with a addresses[0].street that does not exists or is empty the result index of [1].street will be [0].street

This little library is great. It is exactly what I'm looking for.

That said, I'd love the opposite direction as well.

I'd love to be able to take a chunk of json and have it apply to all of the input/textarea's on a page.

The usecase for this is handling of the 'cancel' button. I'd love to just reset everything to its prior values.

Thanks,

jon

I know this is not an issue but I didn't know how to send you a message.

I noticed that this library solves exactly the same problem I solved on my jquery.serializeJSON plugin.

I am also surprised that we both decided to format the fields as in Rails.

I will add a reference to this repository from my README file as the "no jQuery" solution ;)

When a group of radios uses "true" or "false" for their values, form2js converts these to boolean true and false. However, if you add a 3rd radio to the group to indicate "none selected" or "no answer" or "any" and set its value to "", form2js will convert the checked radio with a value of "" to boolean false. However, if you don't use "true" and "false" as the values, the "" value works as expected.

This is because of the radio case in getFieldValue, which falls-through to the checkbox case. The offending line from the checkbox case is:

if(!fieldNode.checked && fieldNode.value === "true") return false;

This is correct for checkboxes, but for something like:

any
on
off

It is broken. I should not get back boolean false if the "any" radio is checked. I should get back "". To fix this, i just copied the statements from the checkbox case in getFieldValue, excluding the offending line, to the radio case.

Point is, this feels like a bug or maybe just unexpected behavior. IMHO, getFieldValue should not treat a radio just like a checkbox.

hi

i do a ajax call

i get this data

{  
   "lodgerId":1,
   "firstName":"Marc",
   "lastName":"Collin",
   "birthdate":"1979-03-02",
   "lodgerStatusId":0,
   "entryDate":"2015-07-22",
   "releaseDate":null,
   "phone":{  
      "phoneId":2,
      "phone":"(438) 392-3955",
      "phoneType":null,
      "extension":0
   },
   "identityCardList":[  
      {  
         "identityCardId":1,
         "identityCardType":{  
            "identityCardTypeId":1,
            "identityCardType":"Certificat de naissance",
            "dateFormat":null
         },
         "identyCardValue":"sdfasd",
         "expiration":null,
         "lodgerOwn":false
      }
   ],
   "oldAddress":{  
      "addressId":1,
      "name":"Père",
      "address":"906 boulé",
      "phone":{  
         "phoneId":1,
         "phone":"4506777244",
         "phoneType":null,
         "extension":0
      }
   },
   "vehicle":{  
      "vehicleId":1,
      "modelId":0,
      "color":"#e1e1e1",
      "licencePlate":"h8x2n4",
      "year":2005
   },
   "inactive":false
}

after i do

js2form($("#contactInformationForm"),data '.', null, false);

my web

<form id="contactInformationForm">
  <input type="hidden" class="form-control" name="lodgerId" id="lodgerId">
  <input type="text" class="form-control" id="lodgerFirstName" name="firstName">
  <input type="text" class="form-control" id="lodgerLastName" name="lastName">
  <input type="hidden" id="oldAddressAddressId" name="oldAddress.addressId">
  <input type="text" class="form-control" id="oldAddressName" name="oldAddress.name">
  <input type="text" class="form-control" id="oldAddressAddress" name="oldAddress.address" >
  <input type="hidden" name="identityCardList[0].identityCardId">
  <input type="text" class="form-control" id="idCardValue1" name="identityCardList[0].identyCardValue">
....
</form>

When i debug, i don't pass by any of the condition of this code in js2form.js

if (typeof formFieldsByName[fieldName] != 'undefined')
{
    setValue(formFieldsByName[fieldName], fieldValue);
}
else if (typeof formFieldsByName[fieldName.replace(_arrayItemRegexp, '[]')] != 'undefined')
{
    setValue(formFieldsByName[fieldName.replace(_arrayItemRegexp, '[]')], fieldValue);
}
else if (typeof formFieldsByName[fieldName.replace(_arrayItemRegexp, "")] != 'undefined') {
    setValue(formFieldsByName[fieldName.replace(_arrayItemRegexp, "")], fieldValue);
}

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Hi ,

I have 3 select tag for Data of Birth property in form but i want to collect them as a single value not 3 different value

As of now
"dd":"2",
"mm":"1",
"yyyy":"1993",

instead
dob:2/1/1993,

Ashish

When you run js2form on a SELECT element with a disabled first option, e.g.

<SELECT name="gender">
<option value="" disabled="disabled" selected="selected">Please select a gender</option>
<option value="M">Male</option>
<option value="F">Female</option>
</SELECT>

js2form would shift the SELECT element to select the first non-disabled option (in this example, Male), even if you don't pass in the "gender" property in the JSON.

The expected behavior is if the property doesn't exist in the JS object, then the SELECT element is not modified, regardless of whether the currently selected option is disabled or not.

The current workaround is to not use the "disabled" attribute on the first option and then use jQuery to add the "disabled" attribute to it again after js2form is called.

i would really like this functionality as it came in very useful when extracting data from the forms i'm using.

i know that the work around is to transform my data into something that will fit into the form before submitting it to the js2form function, but i rather have the same shape of code for submitting data as extracting data. :)

I have my form names in ruby-style syntax like a[b][c], but when using js2form the normalizeName process turns the object I pass into the a.b.c style names. This means that the input names to don't match the names the js2form function is creating for the object, so nothing gets filled in. Is this the intended behavior or am I missing something?

This does not work for me (using current master):

<label>person.ruby[field2][foo]<input type="text" name="person.ruby[field2][f]" value="baz" /></label>

Note that I use "f" instead of "foo". I get "Uncaught TypeError: Object # has no method 'push'"

Hello,

I'd like to contribute to form2js by implementing a way to specify field types on form inputs. This would avoid generating an object like { balance: "-1.50", active: "true" } where it should be { balance: -1.50, active: true }. I've searched the issues and pull requests, but found something similar only for the boolean type.

I'm working on a web framework project which would benefit a lot from form2js. I wrote something similar to it, but it's only capable of converting simple form stuff.

Up to this point, the ideias I came up with are the following:

• Use the type attribute, like <input type="number">, instead of type="text". This is HTML5-like, and has the advantage of displaying a numerical keyboard on mobile devices, while degrading gracefully to type="text" on non-compatible browsers (as far as I know). However, it would break compatibility with type="hidden" and also seem strange on select elements, like <select type="number"> (Eclipse displays a warning when validating XHTML).
• Add some string to the class attribute, like class="type-number" or "type-boolean". It's XHTML compatible and minimally intrusive.

This might eliminate the need for specifying value="on" or value="true" on boolean checkboxes, allowing the string "true" to be used where it actually means a string value.

Any ideas or comments?

Thank you!
André

Ruby style arrays are not working for level 1 type arrays as follows:

testitem[test_property]

But it works for:

test.item[testproperty]

I guess the error is in

line 103

•           if (namePart.length > 1)
  

•           if (namePart.length > 0)
  

and

line 120

•                   arrIdx = namePart[k].match(/([a-z_]+)?[([a-z_][a-z0-9]+?)]/i);
  

•                   arrIdx = namePart[k].match(/([a-z_]+)?[([a-z_][a-z0-9_]+?)]/i);
  

Unable to parse this name: tables[1][features][0][title]

Please help this is a great plugin.

Hi is it possible to emulate - trigger onchange event on form fields that are updated by js2form?
I need something like that:
http://liveweave.com/dsVoDU

I have a table of form values, each row has different input types (based on column) like text and select box.

the text boxes are returned as array but the select box returns the last rows' value all the time.

Please let me know if there is a workaround ??

Hi Max,

I've got a structure that looks like the html below. The issue is that the form isn't getting populated correctly. The phone field shows up fine, but none of the address fields show up. Stepping through the code, it appears as though js2form.getFields() doesn't walk the tree correctly. I see it find the 'addressInfo' id, but nothing within the table. Any ideas?

<table>
<tbody>
<tr>
    <th>Phone</th>
    <td><input type="text" id="phone" name="phone" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <th>Address</th>
    <td>
        <table id="addressInfo" class="condensed-table">
            <tr>
                <th>Street 1</th>
                <td><input type="text" id="address.street1" name="address.street1" /></td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
                <th>Street 2</th>
                <td><input type="text" id="address.street2" name="address.street2" /></td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
                <th>City</th>
                <td><input type="text" id="address.city" name="address.city" /></td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
                <th>State</th>
                <td><input type="text" id="address.state" name="address.state" /></td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
                <th>Zip</th>
                <td><input type="text" id="address.zip" name="address.zip" /></td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
                <th>Country</th>
                <td><input type="text" id="address.country" name="address.country" /></td>
            </tr>
        </table>
    </td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>

Please see console output in the attached image. I save a Backbone object once with form2js and it works fine. But if I save a new object with the same view, I get this rootNode is null error. I can't find anything on Google for this error. Please help!

I have following JSON format which comes dynamically:
{
"JSON": [
{
"key": "a",
"val": "aaa",
"sub": [
{
"key": "b",
"val": "bbb"
}
]
}
]
}
And I want to convert it in following output:

{
"JSON": [
{
"a": "aaa",
"sub": [
{
"b": "bbb"
}
]
}
]
}

Instead of key word I want actual Key-Value and instead of value word I want actual value.
So where to modify form2js.
My HTML is:

:

It won't get the values of input fields inside the innerhtml. i wonder if you can make it possible.. but it's already jQuery but just curious

When an Asp.net MVC 3 view helper spits out a checkbox it puts a checkbox and a hidden text field in the html. This is to ensure that a value is passed back in a post even when the checkbox is not checked. The model binder on the server needs all the properties to have a value to ensure the proper model is bound, and thus the proper controller action method is invoked.

<input type="checkbox" value="true" name="IsFavorite" id="IsFavorite" />
<input type="hidden" value="false" name="IsFavorite"/>

So now the name/value pairs that are generated contain two values for the check box when it is checked, true and false. And false is the second value. So later in processNameValues the last value in wins.

A possible solution is to filter out duplicate values for check boxes. here is the relevant jQuery code I came up with. This generates my name/value list that I then pass into a modified version of your processNameValues function that takes in a json object to update instead of creating a new one. See issue #34.

function updateJson(form, json) {
    var arr = $(form).find(":input, :radio")
        .filter(function () {
            return this.name && !this.disabled &&
                (this.checked || /select|textarea/i.test(this.nodeName) ||
                    /text|hidden|password|search/i.test(this.type));
        })
        .map(function (i, elem) {
            var val = jQuery(this).val();
            return val == null ?
                null : { name: elem.name, value: val }
        }).get();
     $(form).find("input:checkbox")
        .filter(function () {
            return this.name;
        })
        .each(function(index, elem) {
            arr = $.grep(arr, function(item, index){
                return elem.name != item.name;
            });
            arr.push({ name: elem.name, value: (elem.checked ? "true" : "false") });
        });
    return processNameValues(json, arr, true, false);
}

If you run /example/form2js.example.html, you will notice than the first simple input: FirstName, LastName and Gender are not present in the generated Json. But all the rest of the complex form is ok.

Any explanation?

Apparently HTML5 provides this new fieldset name attribute where it is possible to inherit input values to its fieldset parent like:

<input name='event'>
<fieldset name='ticket'>
    <input name='price'>
    <input name='name'>
    <input name='description'>
</fieldset>

and in theory this would return:

where _ is some unknown separator

?event=test&ticket_price=75.00&ticket_name=test&ticket_description=description

I'm not sure if this is completely correct since it seems no browser implements this yet, but it is definitely a convenient way to format data . ;)

Thanks for the great script!

I am working on an asynchronous user interface application. I have a json object along with read-only and edit templates on the client. When the user invokes edit I can show the edit form instantly. I am now working on showing the new read-only view after the user hits save (with the new edited values) immediately. I found your code as a good solution for building that new JSON object to pass into the template engine.

I've made a local copy change to make the main methods take in a json object instead of creating a new one and it works. Do you think it is a fit in your project?

from this:

function form2js(rootNode, delimiter, skipEmpty, nodeCallback, useIdIfEmptyName){
}
function processNameValues(nameValues, skipEmpty, delimiter)
{
    var result = {},
    ...
    return result;
}

to this:

function form2js(rootNode, json, delimiter, skipEmpty, nodeCallback, useIdIfEmptyName)
{
    //... only change is to pass in new 'json' value to processNameValues ...
}
function processNameValues(json, nameValues, skipEmpty, delimiter)
{
    //... only change is to set values on 'json' parameter instead of 'result' variable
    return json;
}

you could still have an 'overload' for the current use case that just calls into the new method interface. That would keep the script backwards compatible and add only a couple lines of code to the file.

function form2js(rootNode, delimiter, skipEmpty, nodeCallback, useIdIfEmptyName)
{
    return form2js(rootNode, {}, delimiter, skipEmpty, nodeCallback, useIdIfEmptyName);
}
function processNameValues(nameValues, skipEmpty, delimiter)
{
    return processNameValues({}, nameValues, skipEmpty, delimiter);
}

Unfortunately the lack of comments in processNameValues makes it hard to work out if I'm just mistaken about how this works, but I was experiencing a bug using CakePHP trying to parse ruby-style field names. A checkbox list such as this: data[Topic][topic_id] was causing an error when I tried to parse it. Turns out the problem was the code:

arrIdx = namePart[k].match(/([a-z_]+)?\[([a-z_][a-z0-9]+?)\]/i);

The regexp doesn't allow an underscore in the rest of the name, which doesn't seem right to me. Seems like it should be:

arrIdx = namePart[k].match(/([a-z_]+)?\[([a-z_][a-z0-9_]+?)\]/i);

It seems to work perfectly after adding the extra underscore.

I'd love to be able to use a jquery selector as a rootNode.

I'm seeing the error:

currResult[arrName].push is not a function

When processing a form that has dynamically generated fields, do you have any ideas why?

TIA

in the case of false (unchecked) it doesn't need to return anything as if(variable) will have the same behavior with null as with false. the 'false' case works. the 'true' case doesn't work.

will return

"exemption": {
    "enabled": "true"
},

where as it should return

"exemption": {
    "enabled": true
},

Given a form containing

form2js will currently return a null value for x - disabled controls should be totally ignored

js2form: list of values doesn't bind to multiselect.
Example:
I need to map object:

var x = {
    levels : ["DEBUG, ""INFO"]
};
js2form(form, x);

to the form with the control:

<select id="levels" name="levels" multiple="multiple"/>

It seems to me that js2form required select name "levels[]", but it's not correct fully.
The fix could look like addition another last "if" branch to the js2form function, I suppose:

      else if (typeof formFieldsByName[fieldName.replace(_arrayItemRegexp, '')] != 'undefined')
      {
        setValue(formFieldsByName[fieldName.replace(_arrayItemRegexp, '')], fieldValue);
      }

Is there any way for me to force the exclusion of a node in my nodeCallback?

I have an attribute I'm setting on inputs when they change, and I can check for this in the nodeCallback, but I can't find anything to return that doesn't end up just adding unchanged elements to the object.

function cleanupFormValues(node) {  
  if (node.getAttribute && node.getAttribute('data-changed') === 'true') {
    if (node.type && node.type === 'checkbox') {
      return { name: node.id, value: node.checked ? true : false };
    } else {
      return false;
    }
  } else {
    return { name: '', value: null };
  }
}

in your process code you start with :

...
    function getFormValues(rootNode, nodeCallback)
    {
        var result = [];
        var currentNode = rootNode.firstChild;
...

causing that you can not process a subset of a form like I would like to have to validate a part of the form with a query like this :

var jsonData = $('[name="food[]"]', myForm).toObject({mode : 'combine', skipEmpty : false});
...

If a form element within the target form doesn't have a name attribute then the above exception is thrown. This caused us a problem when embedding a Google Map within the bounds of a form as it Google uses unnamed checkboxes for its map type selector.

Hi how to capture the value id and text

example

I added this for form2js just above the skipEmpty line... basically, I want any empty value to be treated as null instead of empty string. This also works great with skipEmpty because then I don't have to send back empty values if I don't want to.

            if (emptyToNull && (value === '')) { value = null; }

version tags are not set properly.

bower info form2js
form2js

Versions:
- 4c642f6
-

below is taken from the example html code in the dev branch, and my own.
i don't see a difference in my JSON or the example JSON... mine is valid and comes from couchDB.

the example JSON produces the array names properly.
18 Object { name="bar.Addresses[1].Zip", value="98765"}
19 Object { name="bar.Addresses[1].City", value="LA"}
20 Object { name="bar.Addresses[1].Street", value="Under the bridge"}

my JSON produces names that are not correct.
25 Object { name="taxes", value="2"}
26 Object { name="taxes", value="235235"}
27 Object { name="taxes", value=6}

{
"foo":{
"radio":"3",
"name":{
"first":"Foo-First",
"last":"Foo-Last"
},
"selectArray":[ "green", "yellow" ],
"checkboxArray":[ "steak", "chicken" ]
},
"bar":{
"name":{
"first":"Bar-First",
"last":"Bar-Last"
},
"Emails":[
"[email protected]",
"[email protected]",
"[email protected]",
"[email protected]",
"[email protected]",
"[email protected]"
],
"Addresses":[
{"Zip":"12345","City":"NY","Street":"13, Boardwalk"},
{"Zip":"98765","City":"LA","Street":"Under the bridge"}
]
}
}

from example JSON js2form.html

fieldValues
0 Object { name="foo.radio", value="3"}
1 Object { name="foo.name.first", value="Foo-First"}
2 Object { name="foo.name.last", value="Foo-Last"}
3 Object { name="foo.selectArray[0]", value="green"}
4 Object { name="foo.selectArray[1]", value="yellow"}
5 Object { name="foo.checkboxArray[0]", value="steak"}
6 Object { name="foo.checkboxArray[1]", value="chicken"}
7 Object { name="bar.name.first", value="Bar-First"}
8 Object { name="bar.name.last", value="Bar-Last"}
9 Object { name="bar.Emails[0]", value="[email protected]"}
10 Object { name="bar.Emails[1]", value="[email protected]"}
11 Object { name="bar.Emails[2]", value="[email protected]"}
12 Object { name="bar.Emails[3]", value="[email protected]"}
13 Object { name="bar.Emails[4]", value="[email protected]"}
14 Object { name="bar.Emails[5]", value="[email protected]"}
15 Object { name="bar.Addresses[0].Zip", value="12345"}
16 Object { name="bar.Addresses[0].City", value="NY"}
17 Object { name="bar.Addresses[0].Street", value="13, Boardwalk"}
18 Object { name="bar.Addresses[1].Zip", value="98765"}
19 Object { name="bar.Addresses[1].City", value="LA"}

20 Object { name="bar.Addresses[1].Street", value="Under the bridge"}

{
"_id": "HB - test",
"_rev": "1-a8cb317e9e4faf750d675843cb91c58e",
"ids": {
"chain": "hero burger",
"chain_min": "HB",
"store": "test store",
"store_min": "test",
"store_num": -1
},
"address": {
"country": "Canada",
"street": [
"adfaf",
"asdfasdf",
"asdf"
],
"city": "Toronto",
"state_prov": "Ontario",
"zip_postal": "M5N L7z",
"phones": [
"23452435",
"23452345",
"23452345"
],
"emails": [
"a@a",
"b@b",
"c@c"
]
},
"contact": "tony",
"operation_hours": [
{
"days": "asdfasfd",
"hours": "asfdasdf"
},
{
"days": "wrtt",
"hours": "rw"
}
],
"taxes": [
{
"taxId": "0",
"number": "23452345",
"percent": 4
},
{
"taxId": "1",
"number": "24352345",
"percent": 5
},
{
"taxId": "2",
"number": "235235",
"percent": 6
}
],
"exemption": {
"amount": "5.99",
"enabled": true
},
"website": "www.heroburger.com"
}

from my JSON

fieldValues
0 Object { name="_id", value="HB - test"}
1 Object { name="_rev", value="1-a8cb317e9e4faf750d675843cb91c58e"}
2 Object { name="ids.chain", value="hero burger"}
3 Object { name="ids.chain_min", value="HB"}
4 Object { name="ids.store", value="test store"}
5 Object { name="ids.store_min", value="test"}
6 Object { name="ids.store_num", value=-1}
7 Object { name="address.country", value="Canada"}
8 Object { name="address.street", value="adfaf\nasdfasdf\nasdf"}
9 Object { name="address.city", value="Toronto"}
0 Object { name="address.state_prov", value="Ontario"}
11 Object { name="address.zip_postal", value="M5N L7z"}
12 Object { name="address.phones", value="23452435\n23452345\n23452345"}
13 Object { name="address.emails", value="a@a\nb@b\nc@c"}
14 Object { name="contact", value="tony"}
15 Object { name="operation_hours", value="asdfasfd"}
16 Object { name="operation_hours", value="asfdasdf"}
17 Object { name="operation_hours", value="wrtt"}
18 Object { name="operation_hours", value="rw"}
19 Object { name="taxes", value="0"}
20 Object { name="taxes", value="23452345"}
21 Object { name="taxes", value=4}
22 Object { name="taxes", value="1"}
23 Object { name="taxes", value="24352345"}
24 Object { name="taxes", value=5}
25 Object { name="taxes", value="2"}
26 Object { name="taxes", value="235235"}
27 Object { name="taxes", value=6}
28 Object { name="exemption.amount", value="5.99"}
29 Object { name="website", value="www.heroburger.com"}

Hi, when having an input without name perhaps the custom behaviour could be ignoring that node?

since it will generate a json like this:

{
      "" : "orphan node",
     "title" : "testing",
    ...
}

Given the following unselected inputs:

<dl>
    <dt>Favorite food</dt>
    <dd><label><input type="checkbox" name="person.favFood[]" value="steak"> Steak</label></dd>
    <dd><label><input type="checkbox" name="person.favFood[]" value="pizza"> Pizza</label></dd>
    <dd><label><input type="checkbox" name="person.favFood[]" value="chicken"> Chicken</label></dd>
</dl>

How could form2js build the following JSON for me?

{ person: { favFood: [] } }

One solution would be to cast a set of square brackets to an empty list. Then you could initialize any list you want to be empty by adding a hidden input as follows:

<dl>
    <dt>Favorite food</dt>
       <input type="hidden" name="person.favFood" value="[]" />
    <dd><label><input type="checkbox" name="person.favFood[]" value="steak"> Steak</label></dd>
    <dd><label><input type="checkbox" name="person.favFood[]" value="pizza"> Pizza</label></dd>
    <dd><label><input type="checkbox" name="person.favFood[]" value="chicken"> Chicken</label></dd>
</dl>

Any other ideas?

For issue, see http://jsfiddle.net/petski/y6tqz/

I've resolved this in my fork, for solution see: http://jsfiddle.net/petski/y6tqz/5/

form2js is excellent, searched for this solution for hours and I'm so glad that I didn't have to attempt to write a solution.

I have a multi select marked up as follows

<select name="categories[]" id="categories" multiple="multiple" class="multiple">
    <option value="News" label="News" selected="selected">News</option>
    <option value="Events" label="Events">Events</option>

    <option value="New Products" label="New Products" selected="selected">New Products</option>
</select>

if we have selected News and Events then formTo produces the following object from this...
{
...
"categories" : [ [ "News", "Events" ] ]
...
}

Whereas I required
{
...
"categories" : [ "News", "Events" ]
...
}

I solved the issue for my own needs by changing line 92 in form2object.js
from
name = nameValues[i].name;
to
name = nameValues[i].name.replace('[]','');

This doesn't seem to have any negative effects

I'm using Zend Form to create the form which adds the square brackets to the name if the element is expecting an array

line 50 throws an error in ie7

solution is to change line 50 in form2object.js from

if (rootNode.constructor == Array || rootNode.constructor == NodeList )

to

 if (rootNode.constructor == Array || ( typeof NodeList != "undefined" && rootNode.constructor == NodeList ) )

Thanks

The first option is never selectable - it always results in null. Example here:

http://jsfiddle.net/mikeymckay/FKQWV/2/

this will fail if you traverse back a level in the array:

 <form id="tests">
     <input name="something[something][title]" value="test"/>
     <textarea name="something[description]">Test</textarea>
 </form>

$('#tests').toObject();

Result:

Uncaught TypeError: Object # has no method 'push'

and to reorder so not traversing back results in an unexpected object:

<form id="tests">
    <textarea name="something[description]">Test</textarea>
    <input name="something[something][title]" value="test"/>
</form>

$('#tests').toObject();

Result:

something:
    0: "Test"
    something:
        title: "test"

Expected result for both cases:

something:
    description: "Test"
    something:
        title: "test"

Hello Maxim,

Please excuse my abuse of the GitHub issues feature. I didn't see another way to contact you, but I just wanted to thank you for creating this package. I've found it very useful. Thanks!

Regards,
Craig

when i set input boxes to disabled, i still want to capture the value of the box.

May I suggest that you include the code from form2js into the plugin code directly.

form2js has been a breakthrough in my coding - thank you!

Now that I can suck JSON out of my form, do you have a magical way to take the JSON object and repopulate the form fields with its data?

Before I spend an evening writing custom code, I thought I'd ask.

Hi there. I've been doing some debugging, and I'm guessing that disabled fields are not serialized?

If that's the case, is there a way to turn that on? Like is there a way to get the disabled fields to be serialized?