> I have the exact same problem as this post below from a while back, > which got no valid response. The reason that I need to use synchronous > calls is that on some ajax submittals we either submit the entire page > or return a message to the user, depending on validations - > asynchronous will not work for my purposes.
Why woudn't async work? That's the driving purpose behind blockUI in the first place. To put up a message while waiting for an async callback. As far as I'm concerned there is no valid use case for using sync ajax. None. Nada. Zero. Mike