preventDefault() submitting form
<p>Ok i am fairly new to jquery and javascript in general. I have a form, and what i want to do it have the form run a function to make sure everything is there, and all the variables are correct then submit. I have used <code>onclick</code> value to the submit button and have it run a function that uses <code>preventDefault()</code>. I am not sure if im using it correctly but it doesn't seem to be working. This is what i have and when you click submit, it just submits even if the if statement is false. </p>

<pre><code>function checkSubmitStatus() {
$("#myform").submit(function(event){
if( whatever==true)
{
event.preventDefault(); 
}


&lt;input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit"  onClick="checkSubmitStatus()"&gt;
</code></pre>

<p>Thanks!</p>
