How to cancel a jquery.load()?

Question

I\'d like to cancel a .load() operation, when the load() does not return in 5 seconds. If it\'s so I show an error message like \'sorry, no picture loaded\'.

What I

Answer 1

If you load this code after JQuery has been loaded you will be able to call .load() with a timeout parameter.

jQuery.fn.load = function( url, params, callback, timeout ) {
    if ( typeof url !== "string" ) {
        return _load.call( this, url );

    // Don't do a request if no elements are being requested
    } else if ( !this.length ) {
        return this;
    }

    var off = url.indexOf(" ");
    if ( off >= 0 ) {
        var selector = url.slice(off, url.length);
        url = url.slice(0, off);
    }

    // Default to a GET request
    var type = "GET";

    // If the second parameter was provided
    if ( params ) {
        // If it's a function
        if ( jQuery.isFunction( params ) ) {
            if( callback && typeof callback === "number"){
                timeout = callback;
                callback = params;
                params = null;
            }else{
                // We assume that it's the callback
                callback = params;
                params = null;
                timeout = 0;
            }
        // Otherwise, build a param string
        } else if( typeof params === "number"){
            timeout = params;
            callback = null;
            params = null;
        }else if ( typeof params === "object" ) {
            params = jQuery.param( params, jQuery.ajaxSettings.traditional );
            type = "POST";
            if( callback && typeof callback === "number"){
                timeout = callback;
                callback = null;
            }else if(! timeout){
                timeout = 0;
            }
        }
    }

    var self = this;

    // Request the remote document
    jQuery.ajax({
        url: url,
        type: type,
        dataType: "html",
        data: params,
        timeout: timeout,
        complete: function( res, status ) {
            // If successful, inject the HTML into all the matched elements
            if ( status === "success" || status === "notmodified" ) {
                // See if a selector was specified
                self.html( selector ?
                    // Create a dummy div to hold the results
                    jQuery("<div />")
                        // inject the contents of the document in, removing the scripts
                        // to avoid any 'Permission Denied' errors in IE
                        .append(res.responseText.replace(rscript, ""))

                        // Locate the specified elements
                        .find(selector) :

                    // If not, just inject the full result
                    res.responseText );
            }

            if ( callback ) {
                self.each( callback, [res.responseText, status, res] );
            }
        }
    });

    return this;
};

Not sure if you are interested in overwriting any "standard" JQuery functions, but this would allow you to use .load() the way you described.