prevent closing modal on form submit

Is there a way to prevent the modal from closing when a form is submitted?

I'm working on a form presented to users via a simplemodal presented div.

// modal call
$('#edit_container', document).modal( {onOpen: function (dialog) {
                dialog.overlay开发者_如何学Go.fadeIn('fast', function () {
                    dialog.data.hide();
                    dialog.container.fadeIn('fast', function () {
            dialog.data.slideDown('fast');
                        });
                });
        } , onClose: function(dialog) {
               location.reload(true);
                $.modal.close(); 
                } });
    // simplemodal settings

$.modal.defaults = {
        appendTo: 'body',
        focus: false,
        opacity: 70,
        overlayId: 'simplemodal-overlay',
        overlayCss: {},
        containerId: 'simplemodal-container',
        containerCss: {},
        dataId: 'simplemodal-data',
        dataCss: {},
        minHeight: null,
        minWidth: null,
        maxHeight: null,
        maxWidth: null,
        autoResize: true,
        autoPosition: true,
        zIndex: 1000,
        close: true,
        closeHTML: '',
        closeClass: 'simplemodal-close',
        escClose: false,
        overlayClose: false,
        position: null,
        persist: true,
        modal: true,
        onOpen: null,
        onShow: null,
        onClose: null
    };

I have a jquery function that updates a table within the modal div:

// on submit function
$('form#family-form').submit(function() {
      var condition = $('#edit-health',this).val();
$('>li> + condition + >/li>', document).appendTo('#health_edit_table td ul');
}); 

Any thoughts?

Thanks, Jonathan

If you actually want to submit the form then use ajax. If not then return false from your submit function.

// on submit function
$('form#family-form').submit(function() {
  var frm = this;
  $.ajax({ 
    url:frm.attr('action'),  
    data:$(frm).serialize(),  
    success:function(data){
      var condition = $('#edit-health',frm).val();
      $('>li> + condition + >/li>', document).appendTo('#health_edit_table td ul');
    }  
  });
  return false;
}); 

Woops! I realized that this would need to be done via an AJAX or AHAH (drupal) call. Unless, anyone has a better idea.