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Please wait... JavaScript

Hi
I would like to have a JavaScript that would open a intermediate window saying "Please Wait..." while loading the new window.

Note:
1. The solution has to work in both IE and Netscape
2. The requested window should remain in the background while you were able to see the small pop up window with this message.
3. Once the new window is loaded completly it should replace the old window and the poped up window should disappear.

Also, I would like to have the code in the source page or in a differnt file which is called from the source page. Since I have no control over the links from the source page.

Thanks

fritz_the_blank

You could launch a pop-up window on the onLoad event, but I don't know of any event that triggers when the page finishes loading. Moreover, I think that the onLoad event fires only once the page has finished rendering. Alternatively, if you have a sense of how long the page takes, you could launch a window saying telling the user to wait and launch the main window in the background, but then you wouldn't really be able to close the first window because it would be considered as the parent window. I wonder if there might be some way to use the setTimeOut function to accomplish something like you're looking for...

http://developer.irt.org/script/timeout.htm

Fritz the Blank

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nzjonboy

almost what you want here http://www.dhtmlcentral.com/script/script.asp?id=17 only it doesn't display in a popup window, instead hides the content of the page until it is ready to display

nzjonboy

third

try this,

<div id=loadingmsg style="position:absolute; z-index:2; left:300; top:150; width:200; height:100; border-width:4; border-style:ridge; background-color:#eeeeee"><center><br><br><font face='Arial' Size=3><b>Please Wait.....</b></font><br><br></center></div>
<html>
<head>
<script>
function hidemsg(){
if (document.all)
document.all.loadingmsg.style.visibility='hidden';
if (document.layers)
document.loadingmsg.visibility='hidden';
if (document.getElementById)
document.getElementById('loadingmsg').style.visibility='hidden';
}
</script>
</head>
<body onload="setTimeout('hidemsg()',1000);">
<P> welcome to this page </P>
</body>
</html>

the message will disappear one second after loading the page.

b1xml2

MSIE only
=========
load.html
=========
<script language="javascript">
wSplash = window.open("splash.html","splash","height=100px,width=200px,center=1");
if (wSplash.opener == null) wSplash.opener = window;

//MSIE only
document.onreadystatechange = checkit;
function checkit() {
if (document.readyState == "complete") { wSplash.close(); wSplash = null; }
}

</script>
<html>
<head>
<title>Waiting</title>
</head>
<body style="margin:0px;" scroll="no">
<iframe src="http://www.cisco.com" height="100%" width="100%" frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0"></iframe>
</body>
</html>

splash.html
===========
<html>
<head>
<title>Splash Window</title>
</head>
<body style="text-align:center;font-family:Tahoma;font-size:10pt;">
<div>Loading...</div>
</body>
</html>

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fritz_the_blank

I recommend a split among adowns, third, and b1xml2. They put effort into the question and contributed meaningful content.

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third, points for you at
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