Tips and Tricks :: Creating a floating "Loading" panel...
The other day I wanted to add one of those nice floating "Loading" panels for an ajax site I created. For some reason I didn't think it would be this easy...
All I did was add an UpdateProgress control, and to that I added an AlwaysVisibleControlExtender from the ajaxControlToolkit.
Then I wanted the background to become gray and give the screen the disabled look while loading. All I did was insert an invisible div tag into my UpdatePanel, and when the user triggered an update event for the update panel, I turned the div visiblity property to true.
The div's style :
