jquery ajax just isn't working - php

Question

Ok, thats basically what i got. I also tried static values.
$('#submitForm').submit(function() {
$.ajax({
type: $(this).attr('method'),
url: $(this).attr('action'),
data: $(this).serialize(),
success: function (data) {
console.log(data);
},
error: function (data) {
console.log(data);
}
});
});
What i get as response is this:
Object {readyState: 0, responseText: "", status: 0, statusText = "error"}
The php script (just a simple echo) runs as normal after that ajax call. What am i doing wrong? My submit script doesn't look all that wrong to me and i'm not doing XSS. : - (
My HTML Form looks like this:
<form action="http://dev.xxxxxxx.de/users/register" method="post" accept-charset="utf-8" class="form-horizontal" id="submitForm"> <div class="control-group">
<label class="control-label" for="inputUsername">Nickname</label>
<div class="controls">
<input type="text" name="username" id="inputUsername" value="" placeholder="Nickname" />
</div>
</div>
<div class="control-group">
<label class="control-label" for="inputEmail">E-Mail</label>
<div class="controls">
<input type="text" name="email" id="inputEmail" value="" placeholder="E-Mail" />
</div>
</div>
<div class="control-group">
<label class="control-label" for="inputPassword">Passwort</label>
<div class="controls">
<input type="password" name="password" id="inputPassword" value="" placeholder="Passwort" />
</div>
</div>
<div class="control-group">
<div class="controls">
<input type="submit" class="btn" value="Account erstellen" />
</div>
</div>
</form>

Answer 1

You need to tell the browser not to submit the form by default with:
e.preventDefault();
So:
$('#submitForm').submit(function(e) {
e.preventDefault();
$.ajax({
type: this.method,
url: this.action,
data: $(this).serialize(),
success: function (data) {
console.log(data);
},
error: function (data) {
console.log(data);
}
});
});
Otherwise, your form will submit according to the "action" attribute, before your AJAX returns.