return false on live submit doesn't prevent normal browser submit

[s.baronnet]

        $("form").live('submit',function()
        {
            return false;
        });

the return false doesn't prevent normal browser submit

[dmethvin]

Can you attach a complete test case? I think this may be a duplicate of #5705, the reporter there said it only happened on IE.

[s.baronnet]

• The problem is only with live binding
• a normal submit button works correctly
• a submit with an onclick="$('form').submit()" will not work correctly

see the test case attached

[s.baronnet]

I tested with firefox 3.5.6

[iraebrasil]

I dug into this problem. I noticed that the problem is not in .live() but the triggering of .submit() itself. After much debugging it seamed to me that was a browser problem. That's when I found this: ​https://developer.mozilla.org/en/DOM/form.submit

"Event handling markup like onsubmit="return false;" will not be evaluated when calling the submit method from code. The above code snippet will try and cancel the submit event which will not work when calling the submit method from code."

So it's not a jQuery fault. It's normal browser behavior. Therefore I think this bug is invalid and should be closed.