How do i stop the form from reloading using Javascript?
<p>When a User Submits the form i want to stop the default behavior of the form. ie it should not reload. so that i can perform the AJAX request.</p>

<p>here is the code i used.</p>

<pre><code>&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;
    function validateForm()
    {
        return false;
    }
&lt;/script&gt;
&lt;form action="" name="contact" onsubmit="validateForm();"&gt;
    &lt;input type="text" name="name" value="Enter Your Name..."/&gt;
    &lt;input type="submit" name="submit"/&gt;
&lt;/form&gt;
</code></pre>

<p>this does not stop the form from being submitted or reloaded. how do i achieve this?</p>
