How to loop through all elements of a form jQuery

Question

I was just wondering what the best way of looping through all the child elements of a form would be? My form contains both input and select elements.

At the moment I

Answer 1

As taken from the #jquery Freenode IRC channel:

$.each($(form).serializeArray(), function(_, field) { /* use field.name, field.value */ });

Thanks to @Cork on the channel.