how do you get the html and value output to a string
<p>given this html input element,  &lt;input id="input1" type="text" /&gt;</p>

<p>if the user enters a value of 'test', is there a way in jQuery to serialize that to a string?</p>

<p>The output I would be looking for is, &lt;input id="input1" type="text" value="test" /&gt;</p>

<p>I am not copying this to another element in DOM, I need the actual string so I can send it to EVOPdf.  I've already tried the clone(true), but it doesn't give me any values the user has entered into the inputs.  </p>

<p>I'm resigned to having to parse the html() string and insert a value for each input unless someone knows a better way.</p>
