Capturing a form submit with jquery and .submit

Question

I\'m attempting to use jQuery to capture a submit event and then send the form elements formatted as JSON to a PHP page. I\'m having issues capturing the submit though, I st

Answer 1

Just replace the form.submit function with your own implementation:

var form = document.getElementById('form');
var formSubmit = form.submit; //save reference to original submit function

form.onsubmit = function(e)
{
    formHandler();
    return false;
};

var formHandler = form.submit = function()
{
    alert('hi there');
    formSubmit(); //optionally submit the form
};