how to display 'loading' before content from jquery tabs is loaded

Question

I am using jquery UI tabs and content loaded into the tab is on another page. so it is loading via ajax. There is some lag between the page loading during which the part of the

Answer 1

There's no need to do extra stuff, just add span tag insdie your anchors. i think it's missed in jQuery's documentation.

example:

    

        
Tab 1
        
Tab 2
        
Tab 3
    

span tags are the important part.