RE: FN-FORUM: Creating a "Please wait..." page

date posted 1st August 2006 13:49

> I am wondering if there is a way of putting a small
> popup/alertbox/window saying please wait while we
> search the system type thing, which detects when the
> page is fully loaded and then disappears?

If JavaScript is allowed, you could use the 2-layer switcheroo.

When the page loads, the layer that's doing all the hard work is hidden. In
its place is a "please wait" layer.

When the code finishes in the hidden layer - which you could detect using
the "onLoad" function, or just drop out a bit more JavaScript when it
completes - a JavaScript call is executed which hides the "please wait"
layer and displays the hidden layer with the results it needs to display,
thus ...

//here you place the ids of every element you want to manage/toggle.
var ids=new Array('pleasewait', 'maincontent');

function switchid(id){
hideallids();
showdiv(id);
}

function hideallids(){
//loop through the array and hide each element by id
for (var i=0;i