jQuery override form submit not working when submit called by javascript on a element

A couple of suggestions:

• Overwrite the submit function to do your evil bidding

    var oldSubmit = form.submit;
    form.submit = function() {
        $(form).trigger("submit");
        oldSubmit.call(form, arguments);
    }

• Why not bind to all the <a> tags? Then you don’t have to do any monkey patching, and it could be as simple as (assuming all the links are inside the form tag):

    $("form a").click(function() {
        $(this).parents().filter("form").trigger("submit");
    });