Can you turn off the loading screen in Submodal?

Question

We are using the enhanced sub-modal script (http://gabrito.com/files/subModal/) and would like to bypass the loading.html screen that comes up by default. Can this be turned off? Setting the value to "null" shows a "page not found" error before the actual page loads.

Answer 1

It's not hard, but the code is scattered all over the place in the Javascript source. You might want to use a more modern alternative instead (especially if you're already using a library on your site)

First of all, we strip out all instances of the gLoading variable - this means removing the setPopUpLoadingPage function and the src="'+gLoading+'" in the part where they build the HTML string to inject into the page. And finally, one last reference to gLoading exist in the hidePopWin function, to reset the iframe source back to the loading page when the modal is hidden.

Then finally we replace the line gPopFrame.src = url; in the showPopWin function with this:

if(gPopFrame.src != url){
    gPopFrame.src = url;
}

To stop the iframe from reloading if it's the same source.

You can see a live demo of the new script here: http://www.jsfiddle.net/yijiang/T2u2Z/ and also grab a copy of it here: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1722364/submodalsource.js