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From: "Mel Smith" <med_cutout_syntel@aol.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.javascript
Subject: Showing a 'Waiting ...' Message
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 10:26:34 -0700
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Hi:

    Because of some great help from Denis McMahon last March, I've been 
showing / sorting big tables with no problem

    The only problem I have is displaying a 'Waiting  for Sort to Complete 
...' message on the screen during the interval that sorting is taking place.

    The 'Wait' Message *does* display if I follow it with an Alert() 
message.  Otherwise, it does *not*  display.

    Is there some other way to *force* this following function to display ??

// **** here is the 'wait' message function ****
function showwaitmsg() {
  var el = document.getElementById("sorttext")
  el.style.color="white";
  el.style.background="red" ;
  el.value = " Sorting ... " ;  // in IE7 and also Chrome, this doesn't 
display UNLESS you show an alert() message first
  return ;
}
// **** end of wait message function ****

 Thanks for any hints provided !

-- 
Mel Smith