<title>jQuery serialize()</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.7/css/bootstrap.min.css" />
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
$(document).ready(function() {
$("#button").click(function() {
$('#serialize').html($("form").serialize());
<p>First Name <input type="text" name="first_name" value="" /gt;</p>
<p>Last Name <input type="text" name="last_name" value="" /gt;</p>
<button style="margin:0 0 10px 0;background:#e8e8e8;" class="btn" id="button">Serialize</button><br /><br />
<div id='serialize'></div>