• Registered: 2008-02-18
  • Posts: 40

Topic: Clicking button on submit shows spinner - BACK button problems

Hi,

So I've got this thing where I show a spinner when a submit button is clicked.  The spinner has 'display: none' set on it, and I just 'show()' it.  Easy.

However, after the next page has loaded up, the user presses the browser's back button, the spinner is still showing!  Argh!

How do I make sure the spinner is hidden when the back button is pressed?  I assume I've got to hide the spinner JUST before the current page is about to be unloaded and replaced with the next page?  I'm guessing...

Thanks

Regards,
       Asfand Yar Qazi

  • From: Los Angeles, California
  • Registered: 2006-12-03
  • Posts: 347

Re: Clicking button on submit shows spinner - BACK button problems

Hey there,

You can do:

    Event.observe(window, 'unload', function(){ 
      $('spinner_id_name').hide();
    });

and that should solve that problem.

-patrick

patrick99e99's Website

  • Registered: 2008-02-18
  • Posts: 40

Re: Clicking button on submit shows spinner - BACK button problems

Ah!  That's the ticket...... thanks.

And thanks for finding such and old post and replying to it.