Something like this?
<form onsubmit="do_something()">
function do_something(){
// Do your stuff here
}
If you put return like the code below, you can prevent the form submission by returning false from the do_something() function.
<form onsubmit="return do_something()">
function do_something(){
// Do your stuff here
return true; // submit the form
return false; // don't submit the form
}