jQuery: How to stop AJAX function escaping JSON string used to POST data

Question

I need to serialize all inputs from a form into a JSON string.
With the help of this post, I can successfully create a valid string as below:

{\"input01\         


        

Answer 1

This is the default behaviour of $.ajax(). You can change it by setting the processData option to false. See $.ajax() options.

data  Object, String

Data to be sent to the server. It is converted to a query string, if not already a string. It's appended to the url for GET-requests. See processData option to prevent this automatic processing. Object must be Key/Value pairs. If value is an Array, jQuery serializes multiple values with same key i.e. {foo:["bar1", "bar2"]} becomes '&foo=bar1&foo=bar2'.

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processData   Boolean Default: true

By default, data passed in to the data option as an object (technically, anything other than a string) will be processed and transformed into a query string, fitting to the default content-type "application/x-www-form-urlencoded". If you want to send DOMDocuments, or other non-processed data, set this option to false.