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    <p>I have a html page that displays some basic account information and begins a long-ish running jQuery AJAX request to retrieve more detailed data. While the Ajax request is in progress it is possible for the user to click a button that has an <code>onclick</code> event to navigate to a new page using <code>location.assign</code>.</p> <p>Unfortunately if the button is clicked before the ajax request is complete nothing will happen until the ajax request completes. This is a live server issue. I want the user to be able to immediately navigate away. FF and Chrome appear to behave better but since this is a corporate intranet application they are not really an option.</p> <p>The following code is similar to the page in question:</p> <pre><code>&lt;html&gt; &lt;head&gt; &lt;script src="/js/jquery-1.3.2.min.js" type="text/javascript"&gt; &lt;/script&gt; &lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt; &lt;!-- $(function () { jQuery.ajax({ type: 'GET', url: '/long-running-partial-html-ajax-endpoint', success: function (result) { $('#detail').html(result); }); }, error: function (xmlHttpRequest, textStatus, errorThrown) { $('#detail').html('Failed to load additional information:&lt;br /&gt;' + textStatus + '&lt;br /&gt;' + errorThrown); } }); }); //--&gt; &lt;/script&gt; &lt;/head&gt; &lt;body&gt; &lt;h2&gt;Account Information&lt;/h2&gt; &lt;div&gt;Some basic details here&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div&gt;&lt;button onclick="location.assign(&amp;quot;/somewhere-else&amp;quot;)" type="button"&gt;Go somewhere else now&lt;/button&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div id="detail"&gt; &lt;img src="/ajax-loading-animation.gif" alt="Loading ..." /&gt; Loading ... &lt;/div&gt; &lt;/body&gt; &lt;/html&gt; </code></pre> <p>Things I've tried in the debugger (not on live) already:</p> <ul> <li>using a plain <code>anchor</code> rather than a scripted button</li> <li>using <code>xhr.abort()</code> before the <code>location.assign</code></li> <li>put <code>alert</code>s around the <code>location.assign</code> to reassure myself that the code is executing when expected</li> </ul> <p>Observation:</p> <ul> <li>IE stops animating the gif as soon as the button is clicked.</li> <li>FF/Chrome must automatically abort the ajax request as the jQuery ajax <code>error</code> event is fired</li> </ul> <p>Has anyone come across this issue before? Have you a resolution that will make the navigation more responsive?</p>
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    1. COHave you tried an anchor with a href (as opposed to `location.assign`)?
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    2. COThanks for your interest Pekka. A plain anchor was the first thing I tried as noted in my original post.
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    3. COI've now tried the xhr.abort() in live with no effect other than the returned HTML does not get rendered: i.e the success function does not execute which is a small win I suppose.
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