Disabling ajaxSetup Defaults for some AJAX Calls

Question

The corporate intranet I built heavily uses AJAX calls to load tables and other resources. By default I have a modal dialog box appear with a loading gif to let the user know the page is loading. I set this default up with jQuery's ajaxSetup.

There are a couple of areas where I use a search box with autocomplete. And I noticed every time a character is typed the loading dialog box appears. Any way to disable the ajaxSetup for just that call?

Thanks for the help!

Answer 1

You should be able to pass a new options object with every ajax call to overwrite the settings in the default when needed.

Not sure if your modal is on beforeSend or what have you, but I think you will get the picture from below.

$.ajax({ beforeSend: function() { /* do nothing */ }....

Answer 2

I'm guessing that you set up a handler for a global Ajax event to create the dialog box. These events can be disabled for a specific request like so (from the jQuery documentation):

Global Events

These events are broadcast to all elements in the DOM, triggering any handlers which may be listening. You can listen for these events like so:

$("#loading").bind("ajaxSend", function(){
   $(this).show();
 }).bind("ajaxComplete", function(){
   $(this).hide();
 });

Global events can be disabled, for a particular Ajax request, by passing in the global option, like so:

$.ajax({
   url: "test.html",
   global: false,
   // ...
 });