<p>I am using jquery and the getJSON method and I am wondering if there is a way to display a message saying loading before it loads my content. i know with the jquery ajax calls there is the before submit callbacks where you can have something but the getJSON only has like three options.</p>

<p>Any ideas?</p>

there is the custom
```
.ajax
```
"before" and "success" events which you can trigger.
Normally however, you would just do something like
```
```
showLoadingAnimation(); 
  $.getJSON(  ..... function(){
      dontShowLoadingAnimation(); 
  });
```
```
or something similar.
Your question is however somewhat vauge, and its hard to ascertain what it is you want to do that you wouldn't already be able to do simply with javascript.