Question

I have a web page with a link called “Download”. When user press that link, I’m using javascript to add a gif animation so that user knows that the system is busy. Here is the code:

function submit_form()
{
  var nfy = document.getElementById('nfy_area');
  var img = document.createElement( 'img' );
  img.setAttribute('src', 'images/wait24trans.gif');
  nfy.innerHTML = "This will take a few minutes. Please be patient...";
  nfy.appendChild( img );
  document.forms["download_form"].submit();
}

However, this only works for Opera. For Chrome, nothing is displayed. For Firefox, a broken image is displayed.

Why?

Thanks,

Answer 1

SOLVED: The target of the submit action is another page. So presumably both FF and Chrome detect this and stops loading anything else on the current page. I put in a delay before submitting the form and now it works fine.

Commendably, Opera works perfectly well.