Backbone.js - Remove standard submit event

Question

I handle submit event of my form like so:

 events: {
    'submit #contactus-form': 'submit'
 },

...
 submit: function() {
   alert("handle");
 },

But even though I do it after seeing an alert my page refreshes and this adds to url:

?name=&email=&text=

How do I prevent standard behavior? Leaving only my handler.

Answer 1

This is because you are submiting the for you can use event.preventDefault to prevent this. try this code:-

submit: function(e) {
   e.preventDefault();
   alert("handle");
},