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Overlay div not appearing when select box is changed

I have a table with select boxes in the table headers that filter the rows. This is a large table, and filtering on a text column with long strings can take some time. I'd like an overlay to appear while the filtering is going on and hide it when the filtering is done.

$('#budget-table select').change(e => {

  $('#overlay').show()

  // get the selected options of all the filters at the top.
  const filters = $('#budget-table th select').find(':selected').map((ind, elt) => elt.innerText)

  $(`#budget-table tr`).each((trInd, trElt) => {
    if (trInd == 0) return true // skip the header row

    let showRow = true

    // If the filter is not 'All' and the cell value doesn't match the filter, hide the row.
    $(trElt).children().each((tdInd, tdElt) => {
      if (filters[tdInd] !== 'All' && filters[tdInd] !== tdElt.innerText) {
        showRow = false
        return false
      }
    })
    showRow ? $(trElt).show() : $(trElt).hide()
  })

  $('#overlay').hide()
})
#overlay {
  background-color: #333;
  display: none;
  height: 100%;
  left: 0;
  opacity: 0.6;
  position: fixed;
  top: 0;
  width: 100%;
  z-index: 100;
}
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<div id="project-list">
  <table class="table table-hover table-striped table-rwd" id="budget-table">
    <tr>
      <th>
        <select class="filter-select" data-columnindex="0" id="filter-input-0">
          <option>Option 1</option>
          <option>Option 2</option>
          <option>...</option>
          <option>Option n</option>
        </select>
        <div>
          Territory
        </div>
      </th>
      <th>...several more filters with the same structure</th>
    </tr>
    <tr><td colspan="2">...several hundred rows of table data</td></tr>
  </table>
</div>
<div id="overlay"> </div>

The overlay isn't showing. However, if I move $('#overlay').show() to after the outer each() function, the overlay will show. What am I missing?

about 4 years ago · Juan Pablo Isaza
1 answers
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The each loop will run asynchronously. To wait for the loop to finish, make the change callback asynchronous and add await before the each loop.

$('#budget-table select').change(async e => {

  $('#overlay').show()

  // get the selected options of all the filters at the top.
  const filters = $('#budget-table th select').find(':selected').map((ind, elt) => elt.innerText)

  $(`#budget-table tr`).each((trInd, trElt) => {
    if (trInd == 0) return true // skip the header row

    let showRow = true

    // If the filter is not 'All' and the cell value doesn't match the filter, hide the row.
    await $(trElt).children().each((tdInd, tdElt) => {
      if (filters[tdInd] !== 'All' && filters[tdInd] !== tdElt.innerText) {
        showRow = false
        return false
      }
    })
    showRow ? $(trElt).show() : $(trElt).hide()
  })

  // artificial delay
  await new Promise(r => setTimeout(r, 500));

  $('#overlay').hide()
})
#overlay {
  background-color: #333;
  display: none;
  height: 100%;
  left: 0;
  opacity: 0.6;
  position: fixed;
  top: 0;
  width: 100%;
  z-index: 100;
}
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<div id="project-list">
  <table class="table table-hover table-striped table-rwd" id="budget-table">
    <tr>
      <th>
        <select class="filter-select" data-columnindex="0" id="filter-input-0">
          <option>Option 1</option>
          <option>Option 2</option>
          <option>...</option>
          <option>Option n</option>
        </select>
        <div>
          Territory
        </div>
      </th>
      <th>...several more filters with the same structure</th>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td colspan="2">...several hundred rows of table data</td>
    </tr>
  </table>
</div>
<div id="overlay"> </div>

about 4 years ago · Juan Pablo Isaza Report
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