show loading before showing send result in jquery

Question

I have a simple jquery code to send a content in a jQuery modal window with ajax! everything is working without any problem. in normal, after clicking on the send button, after 1-2 seconds this code showing the result,

function AddFastqpro(action) {
    var b = {};
    b[dle_p_send] = function () {
        var response = $('#dle-poke').val()
        $.post(dle_root + 'engine/ajax/fast.php', { text: response, action: action },
        function (data) {
            if (data == 'ok') {
                DLEalert(dle_p_send_ok, dle_info);
            }
            else { DLEalert(data, dle_info); }
        });
    };

    $('body').append("<div id='dlepopup' style='display:none'><textarea id='dle-poke'></textarea></div>");

    $('#dlepopup').dialog({
        autoOpen: true,
        modal: true,
        draggable: false,
        width: 350,
        dialogClass: "modalfixed",
        buttons: b
    });
};

My question is, how I can add and show a loading picture after clicking on send and before showing the result?

Answer 1

you can do this by ajaxStart() and ajaxComplete()

$("#loading").ajaxStart(function(){
   $(this).show();
 });

$("#loading").ajaxComplete(function(){
   $(this).hide();
 });

or

$.ajax({
   url : dle_root + 'engine/ajax/fast.php',
   data: { text: response, action: action },
   beforeSend: function(){
     $("#loading").show();
   },
   complete: function(){
     $("#loading").hide();
   },
   success:  function (data) {
        if (data == 'ok') {
            DLEalert(dle_p_send_ok, dle_info);
        }
        else { DLEalert(data, dle_info); }
    });
 });