SO jQuery Fiddle
Test Fiddle mainly for SO Questions jQuery 1.4.3, UI 1.8.5
by Nick Craver
HTML
<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.8.5/themes/ui-lightness/jquery-ui.css">
<form id='myform'>
<input name='title' value='foo'/>
</form>
JavaScript
var dataArray = $("#myform").serializeArray(),
len = dataArray.length,
dataObj = {};
for (i=0; i<len; i++) {
dataObj[dataArray[i].name] = dataArray[i].value;
}
alert(dataObj['title']);