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

Just wrote jquery plugin recently that might be helpful. It puts a mask with a spinner over an element, so for your ajax calls you can display the mask before your calls and unmask it in a callback function for example.