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A jQuery modal wait dialog

The jQuery UI modal dialogs are great add-ons but they don’t necessary fit well when you just have to show a wait message. There are issues with removing the title bar and styling the dialog. BlockUI is another alternative but I find it little hard to style using css.
This is how I came up with a wait dialog. I am using two divs here. First div will cover the page content in such a way that the content is still visible but user cannot perform any action. For this, I need a div with near transparent background (opacity of 0.8).
  
   #loading-div-background 
    {
        display:none;
        position:fixed;
        top:0;
        left:0;
        background:black;
        width:100%;
        height:100%;
     }

The second div will contain an animated image and it can be positioned centrally in the page.
  
   #loading-div
    {
         width: 300px;
         height: 200px;
         background-color: #0c0b0b;
         text-align:center;
         position:absolute;
         left: 50%;
         top: 50%;
         margin-left:-150px;
         margin-top: -100px;
     }

Script
  
<script type="text/javascript">
        $(document).ready(function () {
            $("#loading-div-background").css({ opacity: 0.8 });
           
        });

        function ShowProgressAnimation() {
           

            $("#loading-div-background").show();

        }

    </script>

I am assigning the opacity property through jQuery css() funtion as it will take care of any browser compatibility issues.Also, I have written a method which will bring up the background div. This can be invoked during form submit or whenever it is desired to block the page content. In this demo, I am triggering through a button click event.
  
<button id="show" onclick="ShowProgressAnimation();" >Show dialog</button>

<div id="loading-div-background">
    <div id="loading-div" class="ui-corner-all" >
      <img style="height:80px;margin:30px;" src="images/loading.gif" alt="Loading.."/>
      <h2 style="color:gray;font-weight:normal;">Please wait....</h2>
     </div>
</div>

Demo

Loading..

Please wait....

Also check the jQuery image slide show here.

Comments

  1. Really Great.... Helped me a lot. Thanks

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  2. Great script!, thank you very, very much.

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  3. how to hide the dialog when the process is finished... let's say the gridview databind is complete

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    1. You can use the hide() function.

      function HideProgressAnimation() {
      $("#loading-div-background").hide();
      }

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  4. Really great, helped me too, Thanks very much
    Vraiment utile, merci beaucoup.

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  5. Realy Great, thanks, that helped me.

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  6. Thank you, it was really helpful.

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  7. Thank you! It's great helpful.

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  8. Could you please share the image file? I'm not able to get the image of right size.
    Thank you.

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  9. where is the css class definition for "ui-corner-all"?

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    1. It's a jquery ui css class. You can download it from jquery ui
      It has nothing to do with the modal window though.

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  10. Great Script thanks....

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  11. Thanks for sharing it

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  12. Very nice! Thank you!

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  13. Very nice script. Work fine. I need loading.gif image...How can I get that?

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    1. There are tons of sites to generate loading gif images.. loadinggif.com, ajaxload.info etc

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    2. Thank You So much. I just find a problem. The script runs fine on all browser except Internet Explorer. I am using IE 11. Animated loading.gif remains static instead of animating....Any work around in original script will help to solve this problem.....

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    3. Hello Lav G

      Your script works fine in all browsers except Internet Explorer where animated loading gif remains static. Do you have any solution for that?

      Thanks in advance...

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    4. Hi Manan,
      I guess this demo works with IE as well. Not sure if it related to compatibility mode. You would wanna check out this post.

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  14. Please help me. I have a searched a lot on internet without any success. I have tried Img Source as a loading-div background url (../images/loading.gif) and then sets div (loading-div) visibility: none...but none of the method works...

    Function: This is on final payment button on web site. When a customer clicks on 'Complete Order" it shows loading gif with the message and then redirect to receipt page.

    I am not able to paste an actual code since blog is not allowing me to paste html code....

    I am using Internet explorer 11...What interent explorer version are you using?

    Thx

    Manan

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  15. The sample code is outdate. I have to make some changes to have similar look. It's good anyway.

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  16. This saved me some time. Thanks

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  17. thank u, u saved me....

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  18. Good article! very useful for me

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  19. Thank you! very useful for me

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