Adding a loading gif to simple script
- by bluedaniel
Hello everyone, Im really really new to Javascript but Ive got this script that loads the contents of a url and everything works fine. I call the plannerSpin function with an onClick method on a button but how would I go about displaying an animated gif whilst all this is going on?
var xmlHttp
function plannerSpin(str) {
xmlHttp = GetXmlHttpObject()
if (xmlHttp == null) {
alert("Browser does not support HTTP Request")
return
}
var url = "/recipes/planner/data"
xmlHttp.onreadystatechange = stateChanged
xmlHttp.open("GET", url, true)
xmlHttp.send(null)
}
function stateChanged() {
if (xmlHttp.readyState == 4 || xmlHttp.readyState == "complete") {
document.getElementById("recipe_planner_container").innerHTML = xmlHttp.responseText
}
}
function GetXmlHttpObject() {
var xmlHttp = null;
try {
// Firefox, Opera 8.0+, Safari
xmlHttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
} catch (e) {
// Internet Explorer
try {
xmlHttp = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP");
} catch (e) {
xmlHttp = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
}
}
return xmlHttp;
}
