request cancelling - 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 to be working for him.

Here's my form:

    <form action="index.php" method="post" name="pForm">
        <textarea name="comment" onclick="if(this.value == 'skriv h?r...') this.value='';" onblur="if(this.value.length == 0) this.value='skriv h?r...';">skriv h?r...</textarea>
        <input class="submit" type="submit" value="Publicera!" name="submit" />
    </form>

And here's the jquery:

$(document).ready(function() {
    $('form[name=pForm]').submit(function(){

        return false;

    });
});

I've already imported jQuery in the header and i know it's working. My first thought was that it might be outdated, but it's actually "just" a year ago.

So do anyone see what's wrong?

Thanks in advance.

EDIT: From what i've read the easiest and most appropriate way to abort the submit is to return false? But i can't seem to get it working. I've searched the forum and i've found several helpful threads but none of them actually works. I must be screwing something up.

Answer 1

Try using event.preventDefault

$(document).ready(function(event) {
    $('form[name=pForm]').submit(function(event){
        event.preventDefault();
        //add stuff here
    });
});