[jQuery] checkboxes, array and $.post

[jjshell]

Hi,

I have a tabular data I need to be able to delete by selecting
checkboxes, and submitting a form (a .php script then checks which
checkboxes have been submitted, delete by id, return an updated list
of the items injected into the dom).

My problem is that I currently can't manage to gather these checkboxes
values as an array.

Please consider the below code:


$(document).ready(function(){

    //submit the form
    $("form#form-delete").livequery('submit', function(event){
      $("span#wait").html('<img name="wait" src="wait.jpg" />');
      $.post("delete.php",{
              item_id: $(".item_id").val(),
        },function(data){
        $("span#wait").html('');
        $("div#view-items").html(data);
      });
      return false;
    });
});


And the html:

<input name="item_id" class="item_id" value="1" type="checkbox">
<input name="item_id" class="item_id" value="2" type="checkbox">
<input name="item_id" class="item_id" value="3" type="checkbox">
<input name="item_id" class="item_id" value="4" type="checkbox">
//etc.


What would be the ideal jQuery way to handle checkboxes?

Thanks in advance for your time :)

Regards,

-jj.