MVC3 - Ajax loading icon

Question

I would like to show an AJAX loading icon during an ActionResult request that can take a few seconds to process.

What is the best approach to accomplished this?

Answer 1

Just my two cents:

The solution posted by Chris is valid and will work BUT you must add a reference to the two javascript libraries below. Please note that the order matters:

When you create an MVC application pre-loaded with bundling and all these nu-get packages this will probably not be a problem for you but if you were like me and created an empty ASP.NET MVC application you might run into issues.