JavaScript code to stop form submission

Question

One way to stop form submission is to return false from your JavaScript function.

When the submit button is clicked, a validation function is called. I have a case i

Answer 1

You can use the return value of the function to prevent the form submission

and function like

In case of Chrome 27.0.1453.116 m if above code does not work, please set the event handler's parameter's returnValue field to false to get it to work.

Thanks Sam for sharing information.

EDIT :

Thanks to Vikram for his workaround for if validateMyForm() returns false:

where validateMyForm() is a function that returns false if validation fails. The key point is to use the name event. We cannot use for e.g. e.preventDefault()