I think there is a bit of confusion here as to how Coldfusion works. By default the Coldfusion server will return the generated HTML all at once. So if you have a long query your not going to get even the first bit of the document until the CF server is done with it. What your asking your .js to do is when the page begins to load show a loading image and when it's done hide it. Well Coldfusion will give your the entire document at once, even if there is a huge grid with data in it you get all of it at once after CF is done creating it and chances are if you have a fast connection even if the document weight is up there your not going to get the behavior your looking for.
The reason it works with your images is because they take a bit longer to download and they download after the document has been served from the CF server. The markup returned from the server tells the browser where to load the images from. What you need to do is have the CF server stream the document to you as it generates it. This can be done using the cflush tag. http://cfquickdocs.com/cf8/?getDoc=cf#cfflush if you use this properly you can start sending the headers and stuff to the client browser right away and your .js being in the head of the document should execute as well. The other trick would be to use AJAX to load your query result and inject it into the page or pass it to some data handling .js. With AJAX you can use the events that fire before the request begins and after it completes to toggle a neat-o loading image. HTH On Oct 21, 8:17 pm, "Rick Faircloth" <r...@whitestonemedia.com> wrote: > Mike! Crawl back under your rock, you fathead!!! > > There...how's that? :o) > > Rick > > -----Original Message----- > From: jquery-en@googlegroups.com [mailto:jquery...@googlegroups.com] On > > Behalf Of Mike Alsup > Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 7:51 PM > To: jQuery (English) > Subject: [jQuery] Re: loading message shows up after page has loaded > > > Hope that helps. > > > --Karl > > Bah, this is getting entirely too civil. Snooze... :-)
