How to call .ajaxStart() on specific ajax calls

Question

I have some ajax calls on the document of a site that display or hide a progress bar depending on the ajax status

  $(document).ajaxStart(function(){ 
              


        

Answer 1

Use ajaxSend and ajaxComplete if you want to interspect the request before deciding what to do. See my reply here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/15763341/117268