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Hello:
I am using jquery for the first time to validate and submit a form. My issue is that the validation works well but after all of the fields are validated I can not get the form to submit to the server side php form processing script. If I remove 'return false;' from my code below the validation does not work and the form submits, but if I leave return false; the form will not submit. Thank you for your help.

The jquery code:

$(document).ready(function() {
  $('.error').hide();

  $('.sbmt').click(function(event){

        var data=$('.userid').val();
        var len=data.length;
        if(len<1)
        {
          $('.error').show();
        }
        else
        {
          $('.error').hide();
        }

        var data=$('.company').val();
        if(validate_userid(data))
        {
          $('.company').next().hide();
        }
        else
        {
          $('.company').next().show();

        }


        var data=$('.infobox').val();
        if(validate_phoneno(data))
        {
          $('.infobox').next().hide();
        }
        else
        {
          $('.infobox').next().show();

        }

        //verify email
        data=$('.password').val();
        var len=data.length;
        if(len<1)
        {
          $('.password').next().show();
        }
        else
        {
          $('.password').next().hide();
        }
        if($('.password').val() !=$('.confpass').val())
        {
          $('.confpass').next().show();
        }
        else
        {
          $('.confpass').next().hide();
        }

        if(valid_email(data))
        {
          $('.password').next().hide();
        }
        else
        {
          $('.password').next().show();

        }
       return false;
  });
});
function validate_userid(uid)
{
  var pattern= new RegExp(/^[\s+a-zA-Z0-9.,&\s+]+$/);
  return pattern.test(uid);
}

function validate_phoneno(ph)
{
  var pattern=new RegExp(/^[0-9-+]+$/);
  return pattern.test(ph);
}

function valid_email(email)
{
  var pattern= new RegExp(/^[\w-]+(\.[\w-]+)*@([\w-]+\.)+[a-zA-Z]+$/);
  return pattern.test(email);
}

function submitform()
{
  document.beverageForm.submit();

}

function submitform2()
{

  document.bakingForm.submit();

}

some of my html code:

<form action="http://xxx.com/baking/formmail.php" name="bakingForm" method="post" id="bkform">
submit functionality:  <a href="javascript:submitform2()" class="sbmt" >Submit</a></span>