[jQuery] Re: ajaxStart() question

[Rick Faircloth]

Mmmm...would this be a case of creating a global variable
for use in all cases as opposed to a local variable for the animation code?


-----Original Message-----
From: jquery-en@googlegroups.com [mailto:jquery...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf 
Of Alexandre Plennevaux
Sent: Friday, March 06, 2009 6:02 AM
To: jquery-en@googlegroups.com
Subject: [jQuery] Re: ajaxStart() question


just in case it helps, here is the code i have so far:

 var $loadAnim = $('<div id="loadAnim"><img src="ajax-loader_light2.gif" 
/></div>').appendTo('body');

            $loadAnim.ajaxStart(function(el)
            {
                // the following behavior will be done each time an ajax call 
is triggered
                var $loadTarget = $('#container'); // <!-- "#container" should 
be a variable or $.ajax stored property since in my case, it changes often
                console.log(el);
                $loadAnim.css({
                    top: $loadTarget.offset().top,
                    left: $loadTarget.offset().left,
                    width: $loadTarget.width(),
                    height: $loadTarget.height()
                }).show();
                $loadTarget.load('demo_content.html', function()
                {
                    $loadAnim.fadeOut(2000);
                });
            });


On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 11:44 AM, Alexandre Plennevaux <aplennev...@gmail.com> 
wrote:
> thanks ryan, but i want to set it generically for all ajax calls, for 
> instance, via ajaxStart() instead of having to attach the behaviour to 
> every single trigger element.
>
> On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 11:30 AM, ryan.j <ryan.joyce...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>>
>> but since you already specify the target element for the .load() at 
>> some point, you'll already have it to put in the callback?
>>
>> function doLoad(el, url) {
>>  var contEl = $(el)
>>  contEl .append('<img id="loadIcon" src="loading.png" />');
>>  contEl .load( url, function(){
>>    contEl .remove('#loadIcon');
>>  });
>> }
>>
>> <a href=# onclick="doload('#myContainer','http://
>> www.google.co.uk')">load</a>
>>
>> On Mar 6, 10:14 am, Alexandre Plennevaux <aplennev...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>> yes, thanks but that does not help my specific need: what i need to 
>>> know is if the ajax object stores the container in which it will 
>>> load the content in a property that i can retrieve, so that the load 
>>> animation goes on top of it.
>>>
>>> On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 11:11 AM, ryan.j <ryan.joyce...@googlemail.com> 
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> > oh and it may or may not be any use, but you can grab all manner 
>>> > of nice animated loading graphics here...http://www.ajaxload.info/
>