Ajax Tabs and trapping timeout

[yabot]

1) Script Title: Ajax Tabs

2) Script URL (on DD): http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamici...tent/index.htm

3) Describe problem: Is it possible to trap a timeout if a page does not load when the tab is clicked? And in that way tell the user that "we are experiencing problems right now..."

[ddadmin]

By timeout, do you mean the page actually failing to load, or just not load within a certain timeframe? For the former, it's easier to handle. Inside the .js file, try adding the code in red to the existing block below:

ddajaxtabs.loadpage=function(page_request, pageurl, tabinstance){
	var divId=tabinstance.contentdivid
	document.getElementById(divId).innerHTML=ddajaxtabssettings.loadstatustext //Display "fetching page message"
	if (page_request.readyState == 4 && (page_request.status==200 || window.location.href.indexOf("http")==-1)){
		document.getElementById(divId).innerHTML=page_request.responseText
		ddajaxtabs.ajaxpageloadaction(pageurl, tabinstance)
	}
	else
		document.getElementById(divId).innerHTML='<b style="color:red">Error fetching content. Please try again later.</b>'	
}

[yabot]

In this way the text show up immediately and if the page load fast just flashes but not really a swell solution...

Would like to have something that kicks in when/if a page is not loaded.