How to prevent form from being submitted?

Question

I have a form that has a submit button in it somewhere.

However, I would like to somehow \'catch\' the submit event and prevent it from occurring.

Is there s

Answer 1

The following works as of now (tested in chrome and firefox):

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()