Changing the cursor in ASP.NET while loading doesn’t work without a JS alert

I want to change the cursor to an hourglass in my asp.net application to let my users know that the process is running. I searched for an answer and was advised to use JavaScript as follows:

1. Add this JavaScript:

   function hourglass() {
       document.body.style.cursor = "wait";
   }

2. then in my code in the page load event:

   btnImport.Attributes.Add("onclick", "javascript: hourglass();");

Where btnImport is the button they click on.

However this does not work. If I add an alert to the hourglass function. it does work. Is there some way to get this to work without the alert?

Answers:

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Method 1

How about this:

btnImport.Attributes.Add("onclick", "hourglass();");

Method 2

Is it an Ajax-Webapp? Then you could use an UpdateProgress Control to show while the user is waiting till import finished.

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