mvc3 Ajax.ActionLink and delaying LoadingElementId from showing

Question

I have a progress div which absolute positions across the top of the web page.

When I click on a Ajax.ActionLink, sometimes I see it flicker at the top when the request/

Answer 1

You will need to handle this yourself.

Rather than specifying a AjaxOptions.LoadingElementId you can handle the showing/hiding of your loading element by specifying functions for the OnBegin (show it) and OnComplete (hide it) events.

See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd460351.aspx for more details on AjaxOptions.

There are a few ways of creating the delay - see How to wait 5 seconds with jQuery?

And here's an example that does it with jQuery - delay the showing of a ajax loading gif using jQuery