Validation Widget onSubmit

Question

I would like to use the validation widgets when submitting
data via Spry.Utils.loadURL. The validations work automatically
when the form is submitted, but I want to call the
Spry.Utils.loadURL in a function in an onSubmit function. Is there
a way to invoke the validation manually?
Something like:
<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">
function SendFormCallback(request)
//callback processing here
function SendForm(theForm)
Spry.Utils.loadURL("GET", "
http://"+document.domain+"/scripts/myProxy.cfm?method=sendemail&"+formValsToString(theForm ),
true, SendFormCallback);
</script>
<form name="myForm" method="post" action=""
onSubmit="SendForm('myForm'); return false;">
<table>
<tr valign="top">
<td align="right" valign="top"
class="label">Name:</td>
<td align="left" id="nameWidget"><input type="text"
name="nameField" id="nameField" size="70">
<span class="textfieldRequiredMsg">Please enter your
name. </span></td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td align="center" colspan="2"><input type="submit"
name="Submit" value="Submit"></td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>
<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">
var nameWidget = new
Spry.Widget.ValidationTextField("nameWidget", "none",
{useCharacterMasking:true,
validateOn:["blur","change"]});</script>

Answer 1

Thanks for your help on this.
Just wanted to let you know that in order to get this to work
I had to add:
var theForm = document.getElementById(form);
So I ended up with:
function SendForm(form)
var theForm = document.getElementById(form);
var ret = Spry.Widget.Form.validate(theForm);
if (ret)
Spry.Utils.loadURL("GET", "
http://"+document.domain+"/scripts/myProxy.cfm?
method=sendemail&"+formValsToString(theForm), true,
SendFormCallback);
}