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

$(document).ready(function () {
  var form = $('#login_form')[0];
  form.onsubmit = function(e){
  var data = $("#login_form :input").serializeArray();
  console.log(data);
  $.ajax({
  url: "the url to post",
  data: data,
  processData: false,
  contentType: false,
  type: 'POST',
  success: function(data){
    alert(data);
  },
  error: function(xhrRequest, status, error) {
    alert(JSON.stringify(xhrRequest));
  }
});
    return false;
  }
});

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