I'm trying to execute an Ajax request exclusively through a Prototype DOM created form. var note_form = new Element('div', {className: 'form', style: 'display:none'}).update( new Element('form', {id: 'note_form', method: 'post'}).update( new Element('div', {id: 'form_result', className: 'form_row'}).update( new Element('textarea', {name: 'note', className: 'note'}) ).insert( new Element('div', {className: 'form_row form_submit', style: 'text-align:center;'}).update( new Element('center').insert( new Element('input', {type: 'submit', value: 'Add note', className: 'submit'}) ) ) ) ) ); Code (markup): Now what I would like the submit to do is basically this: <form onsubmit="new Ajax.Updater('form_result', '/some/url', {asynchronous:true, evalScripts:false, parameters:Form.serialize(this)}); return false;" method="post" /> HTML: How can I make the DOM form do the same thing as the HTML form. function noteSumbit() { new Ajax.Updater('form_result', '/some/page', {asynchronous:true, evalScripts:false, parameters:Form.serialize(this)}); return false; } Event.observe('note_form', 'submit', noteSumbit); Code (markup): Here's where I started, but this causes the page to refresh as if the form was submitted to itself, and not an Ajax request. Any help or a tutorial or direction on this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks