Ahh, OK, I thought you wanted a popup window. There is no way to "unwrite"
text on a page. The only thing that comes to mind is using a textfield and
changing its value through javascript, but that leaves an ugly text field on
your page, unless you want to do some CSS to hide it best you can.
"Michael Champagne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Thanks for the response. The only problem is that the page that I'm
waiting
> on is already a popped up window, so I'd hate to open up another popup
window
> on top of that to say that the first one is loading. Is there a way to do
> this within the same window?
>
> Thanks!
> Mike
>
> > I did this myself, for the exact same reason. First I define this
> > javascript in my page:
> >
> > function itsThinkingOpen() {
> >
> >
imgWindow=window.open("thinking.htm","thinkingWindow","toolbar=no,scrollbars
> > =no,resizable=no,width=400,height=200");
> > }
> >
> > function itsThinkingClose() {
> > imgWindow.close();
> > }
> >
> > and then at the beginning of the page, before the search begins, in php
I
> > put
> > echo "<script>itsThinkingOpen()</script>";
> >
> > and after the code to search the database I put
> > echo "<script>itsThinkingClose()</script>";
> >
> > It works fine here.
> >
> > Keith Jeffery
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > "Michael Champagne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > > I have a popup window that populates a table with rows from a database
and
> > it
> > > normally takes about 15 to 20 seconds to load. Does anyone know how I
can
> > > display a 'Loading... Please Wait.' that will disappear once the data
> > comes
> > > up?
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance for any responses,
> > > Mike
> > >
> > >
> > >
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