jQuery - Cancel form submit (using “return false”?)?

Question

I\'m running into a bit of trouble while trying to cancel the submit of a form. I\'ve been following this tutorial (even though i\'m not making a login script), and it seems

Answer 1

I also had this problem, my code (that didn't work) was something like this:

$('#upload_form').submit(function(){ before_submit('argument') });

and inside the "before_submit" function i had "return false" to stop the form from submitting:

function before_submit() {

.........................................................
return false;
}

I put "return" when binding the event handler function to the form and it worked:

$('#upload_form').submit(function(){ return before_submit('argument') });

The function attached to the submit event has to return false (in my case the anonymous function). So...this is one solution to one cause of this problem