onsubmit="return false" has no effect on Internet Explorer 7/8 (form is still submitted)

Question

I have a form that will be submitted by javascript code triggered in "onsubmit" of the tag. Works fine on all browsers - but not on IE7/IE8.

What can I do?

<form action="/dosomething.htm" method="GET" onsubmit="submitmyform();return false">
  [...]
  <input type="submit" value="Go">
</form>

Answer 1

I'm going to nitpick this. If you want to handle form submissions, that is what submit is for. If the user hits enter in one of your fields, your onclick handler will be totally avoided. Here is a basic example of doing this in a non-obtrusive way.

<form name="myform">
  <input type="submit" />
</form>
<script>
  document.myform.onsubmit = function(){
    alert('handled');
    return false;
  }
</script>

This can be made a lot simpler with jQuery, same form...

$("form[name=myform]").bind('submit',function(){
   alert('handled');
   return false;
});