If you have a form as such:
<form id="myform">
...
</form>
You can use the following jQuery code to do something before the form is submitted:
$('#myform').submit(function() {
// DO STUFF...
return true; // return false to cancel form action
});
Update; for newer JQuery versions (to avoid deprecation warnings), try:
$('#myform').on('submit', function() {
// ...
return true;
});