change innerHTML while executing

[Paolo matador]

Hi everybody...

I hope someone will help me with this problem.

I've got a function, which must do thinks in 3 steps.
1. Change the innerHTML of an element to show a message (Please wait
while ...)
2. Work with datas
3. Re-Change the innerHTML to show the result.

The work on datas may take a few seconds (working with XML, DOM and so
on)

I did a cut and paste of an old post, but no one did any answer, so I
hope to give any help now.
Thanks.

 

[Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn]

[...]
I did a cut and paste of an old post, but no one did any answer, so I
hope to give any help now.

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[James Black]

Use setTimeout and do the next step when the timeout is called.

You can set the timeout to be something like 20ms, so it basically goes
directly to it, but, since it is a new function call the browser will
write what you did the first time.

I would have to find the message here where this was explained based on
a question of mine, actually.

 

[VK]

Use setTimeout and do the next step when the timeout is called.

You can set the timeout to be something like 20ms, so it basically goes
directly to it, but, since it is a new function call the browser will
write what you did the first time.

I would have to find the message here where this was explained based on
a question of mine, actually.

Maybe something like:
<http://groups.google.com/group/comp...c1f2da/e02fd02952dd0d24?#doc_e02fd02952dd0d24>