title: PHP wait cursor for form that submits to a PHP script without a page change
body: <p>I have a simple HTML form to create a spreadsheet using PHPExcel.    When the form submit button is clicked, a PHP page is called that creates the spreadsheet with PHPExcel and then exits (exit;).  So, to the user, the page never changes and they just get a Excel workbook pop open.</p>
  
  <p>I've been trying to figure out how to make the cursor change to an hourglass when the submit button is clicked, and then change back to a normal cursor before the PHP script exits.</p>
  
  <p>I've tried several methods and nothing I've tried for adding or removing a wait cursor works.  There's something about calling the PHP file on a form submit (without changing pages) that causing normal methods of changing the cursor not to work (I think).</p>
  
  <p>Would anyone know a working method of setting a wait cursor on the submit of the form, and then setting the normal cursor back when the PHP script exits? </p>
  
  <p>I am using jQuery and have tried normal and jQuery methods of changing the cursor.  Thanks for any help.</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;form action="export_updates.php" method="post" name="form1"&gt;                   
      &lt;input type = "image" src = "../../images/excel_icon.png"  name = "submit" value = "submit" id="make_spreadhseet_1"/&gt;
  &lt;/form&gt; 
  </code></pre>