elementis0 Posted February 16, 2008 Share Posted February 16, 2008 ok well ive been looking up the AJAX tutorials at w3schools. and I was wondering how I can make the httprequest code display a loading message while the requested content is being retrieved. heres the code: <html><head><script type="text/javascript">var xmlhttp;function loadXMLDoc(url){xmlhttp=null;if (window.XMLHttpRequest) {// code for IE7, Firefox, Opera, etc. xmlhttp=new XMLHttpRequest(); }else if (window.ActiveXObject) {// code for IE6, IE5 xmlhttp=new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP"); }if (xmlhttp!=null) { xmlhttp.onreadystatechange=state_Change; xmlhttp.open("GET",url,true); xmlhttp.send(null); }else { alert("Your browser does not support XMLHTTP."); }}function state_Change(){if (xmlhttp.readyState==4) {// 4 = "loaded" if (xmlhttp.status==200) {// 200 = "OK" document.getElementById('A1').innerHTML=xmlhttp.status; document.getElementById('A2').innerHTML=xmlhttp.statusText; document.getElementById('A3').innerHTML=xmlhttp.responseText; } else { alert("Problem retrieving XML data:" + xmlhttp.statusText); } }}</script></head><body><h2>Using the HttpRequest Object</h2><p><b>Status:</b><span id="A1"></span></p><p><b>Status text:</b><span id="A2"></span></p><p><b>Response:</b><br /><span id="A3"></span></p><button onclick="loadXMLDoc('note.xml')">Get XML</button></body></html> how can I make that script show a loading message on the button click while the server is getting the wanted xml data. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elementis0 Posted February 16, 2008 Author Share Posted February 16, 2008 Nevermind I was able to make it work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhecht Posted February 17, 2008 Share Posted February 17, 2008 even though you've said you've gotten it to work, might i say look up MooTools' ajax component. Takes a lot of issue out of making an Ajax request, includes a bunch of handy events as well( onComplete, for example fires when the status is equal to 4, onRequest fires when the ajax request begins, onFailure happens when the request errors for some reason etc etc). Just a thought. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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