ASP.NET MVC Ajax LoadingELement on loading a page

Question

Hi,

I'm looking on how exactly I can show a "loading element" while the page is first requested. Most examples I find, explain on how to show a "loading element" on an Ajax.BeginForm or Ajax.ActionLink...

What I'm trying to do is having a couple of dashboards. When the user requests the page, the dashboards are shown immediately, but the data is still being loaded. While the data is being loaded, a "loading element" should appear in the dashboard.

So, some sort of Ajax.RenderPartial, but that does not exist :)

Answer 1

In this case you could show the loading element immediately when the page is first requested along with the dashboards and hide it later when those dashboards are finished loading. There's the endRequest event you could subscribe to.