Javascript: How to hijack input type=submit on click behavior?

Target the form instead, not the submit button

$("form").submit(function(e) {

    e.preventDefault();
    e.returnValue = false;

    // do things
});

Just for the sake of keeping this answer updated change :

$("form").live('submit', function(e) {

    e.preventDefault();
    e.returnValue = false;

    // do things
});

with :

$("form").on('submit', function(e) {

    e.preventDefault();
    e.returnValue = false;

    // do things
});

$(selector).live() was deprecated in Jquery 1.7 and removed from the framework in Jquery 1.9.

Here´s the documentation

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