On some DOM elements I needed to use a generic function to show a "loading..." div in the element during the load operation and hide it when the load operation has finished.

As I have several different load operation I really needed a common way to trigger operations on the different states of the load action.

But if the global ajax event handlers .ajaxSend() and .ajaxComplete() are good for listeners, I was unable to use them for triggering a simple event on the element on which the load is done.

So i added 4 simple triggers at each step of the ajax request in the onload function. They work nicely I use them with .bind() and .live() without any problem.

I've seen some post on the forums of other people who wanted to do the same things so here is my (very) little patch for the 1.4.2 version, if you want to include it.

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<               self.trigger('load_send');
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<                               self.trigger('load_complete');
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<                                       self.trigger('load_success');
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<                               else { self.trigger('load_error'); }
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