Question

I am trying to disable the default confirm box that fires onSubmit. I have been trying for a while now with no success. This is what I tried…

My Markup

<form method="post" action="special.php" id="myForm" onsubmit="return confirm('Are you sure you ready to submit this order?\n\n')"> 
    //input fields
</form>

My JavaScript

$('.excelDL').click(function(){
       $('#myForm').trigger('submit', function(e){
            window.alert = function() {}; //overwrite default alert
            $.post('mail.php', $(this).serialize(), function (data) {})                 
            e.preventDefault();
        });         
});

Answer 1

To begin with you’re not firing an alert, you’re firing a confirm. so change
window.alert = function() {};
to
window.confirm = function() {};

then move it outside the submit function so that it overwrites the native function before the submit happens.