How to call .ajaxStart() on specific ajax calls

Question

I have some ajax calls on the document of a site that display or hide a progress bar depending on the ajax status

  $(document).ajaxStart(function(){ 
              


        

Answer 1

There is an attribute in the options object .ajax() takes called global.

If set to false, it will not trigger the ajaxStart event for the call.

    $.ajax({
        url: "google.com",
        type: "GET",
        dataType: "json",
        cache: false,
        global: false, 
        success: function (data) {