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How to run javascript function in background / without freezing UI

rated 0 times [ 120] [ 5] / answers: 1 / hits: 62600 / 11 Years ago, thu, september 19, 2013, 12:00:00

I've done an HTML form which has a lot of questions (coming from a database) in many different tabs. User then gives answers in those questions. Each time a user changes a tab my Javascript creates a save. The problem is that I have to loop through all questions each time the tab is changed and it freezes the form for about 5 seconds every time.

I've been searching for an answer how I can run my save function in the background. Apparently there is no real way to run something in the background and many recommend using setTimeout(); For example this one How to get a group of js function running in background

But none of these examples does explain or take into consideration that even if I use something like setTimeout(saveFunction, 2000); it doesn't solve my problem. It only postpones it by 2 seconds in this case.

Is there a way to solve this problem?

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answered 11 Years ago alessandrol · Accepted Answer

Apparently there is no real way to run something on background...

There is on most modern browsers (but not IE9 and earlier): Web Workers.

But I think you're trying to solve the problem at the wrong level: 1. It should be possible to loop through all of your controls in a lot less than five seconds, and 2. It shouldn't be necessary to loop through all controls when only one of them has changed.

I suggest looking to those problems before trying to offload that processing to the background.

For instance, you could have an object that contains the current value of each item, and then have the UI for each item update that object when the value changes. Then you'd have all the values in that object, without having to loop through all the controls again.