jQuery: Undo event.preventDefault()

The function that you are looking for is called unbind().

Here is a small example:

$("#myform").submit(function(event) {
    event.preventDefault();
    // ...
});
 
// ...
 
$("#myform").unbind('submit');

First, we prevent using event.preventDefault(), that the form can be submitted, if we click on the submit button.

Then, we take this back with unbind('submit') and it works as before. Unbind ensures, that a preassigned event handler is canceled. In the example, we define with 'submit' the type of the event handler to be deleted. If you omit this and write $("#myform").unbind() instead, you will remove all assigned event handlers of the form.
Last update on 2020-10-18 | Created on 2012-07-22

And here is another way with the same effect:

var eventhandler = function(e) {
   e.preventDefault();      
}
      
$("#myform").bind('submit', eventhandler);
  
//...
  
$("#myform").unbind('submit', eventhandler);

This should also clarify the difference between bind() and unbind(). We are using bind() to assign an event handler and with unbind(), we remove it again. We have defined the event handler as a variable before, which has been assigned the function preventDefault.
Last update on 2020-10-18 | Created on 2012-07-23