Animated Image not works when page is submitted

Hi,
When I try to show a progress bar (animated gif) right after submitting a page - it stops animation and post the data.
This does not happens in IE but happens in all Netscape browsers.
Can't find anything from online forum.
Please advice. Is this is a known bug or limitation in Netscape.

Thanks in adv.
janwar73

 

Welcome to the Forum, janwar73!

janwar73,

Are you saying that this is a webpage that you are creating, where the animated progress bar doesn't work? If so, can you give us a link to the page?

Thanks!

 

Thanks for a quick response!
Actually its an intranet page so you can't access it but here is what I am doing-
1. On the 'OnSubmit' event of a button - I am calling a Javascript method to do some validations and then post it through Javascript.
e.g.:
function validate()
{
/** do some validations **/
document.forms[0].method = "Post ";
document.forms[0].action = document.forms[0].formAction.value; document.forms[0].submit();

// Turn Progress Bar visible
if(document.all && document.all.progressBar.filters) {
eval( "document.all.progressBar ").style.visibility = 'visible';
}
else if(document.all) {document.all.progressBar.style.visibility = 'visible';}
else if(document.getElementById) {document.getElementById( "progressBar ").style.visibility = 'visible';}
return false;
}

2. This will unhide the dhtml layer which has an 'Animated Progress bar' running for unlimited time.

3. I want to show something to the users until the servlet processes my request and returns a 'Thank you' page.

4. But somehow the animation stops.

Hope I'm clear.
Let me know if you need the whole code.
Its pretty simple and the same thing works in IE based browsers.
Thanks

 

janwar73,

Whoa, you are way ahead of me here. Unfortunately I am JavaScript illiterate. However, in a Google search for "cross browser JavaScript for Progress Bar ", I did find these pages, which may give you some help:
Progress Bar
Time Based Progress Bar
Event Based Progress Bar
WinXP Progress Bar

Hope this helps!