title: Page loading effect with jquery
body: <p>Is there a way to use jquery (or other method) to display a loading div while page loads?</p>
  
  <p>I have a table that is populated using PHP/MySQL and can contain several thousand rows. This is then sorted using the tablesorter plugin for jquery. Everything works fine, however the page can sometimes take 4-5 seconds to fully load and it would be nice to display a 'loading...' message within a div which automatically disappears when whole table is loaded.</p>
  
  <p>I have heard of loadmask plugin for jquery - would this be suitable for my needs and if not any alternative?</p>
  
  <p>No AJAX calls are being made while loading this table if thats relevant.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks in advance
  Andy</p>