> Since I'm not very experienced with asynchronous stuff in Javascript I > don't know whether this is a flaw in jQuery or an inevitable result of > the way AJAX works. In the latter case, I guess that the architecture > of the jQuery form plugin is flawed. Or I must be overlooking a > possibility to return a value based on the outcome of a AJAX call done > in the same function.
Tim, That is not how the beforeSubmit callback is intended to be used. beforeSubmit is a hook to do *client-side* validation. If you don't have client-side validation logic, then just submit the form and let the server-side validation logic do its thing. Mike
