Prevent Default on Form Submit jQuery

Question

What's wrong with this?

HTML:

<form action="<URL>http://localhost:8888/bevbros/index.php/test"
          method="post" accept-charset="utf-8" id="cpa-form" class="forms">        
    <input type="text" name="zip" id="Zip" class="required valid">      
    <input type="submit" name="Next" value="Submit" class="forms" id="1">
</form>

jQuery:

$("#cpa-form").submit(function(e){
    e.preventDefault();
});

Answer 1

Try this:

$("#cpa-form").submit(function(e){
    return false;
});