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**Category:** ionic-v1\
**Created:** [January 16, 2015, 8:23pm UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/ionicloading-on-specific-html-tag/15860 "2015-01-16T20:23:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:**  [@giorgiopagliara](https://forum.ionicframework.com/u/giorgiopagliara)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2015, 8:23pm UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/ionicloading-on-specific-html-tag/15860/1 "2015-01-16T20:23:01Z")
I’d like to show the `$ionicLoading` on a specific html tag like `ion-view` or `ion-content` or `div`.
I mean, at the moment `$ionicLoading` freeze the entire app.
It would be useful to leave outside the `$ionicLoading` freeze at least tabs and navigation bar in order to let user change view if necessary.
Or, is there a different way to let user know that content is loading without freezing everything? Am I missing something?
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**Author:**  [@brandyshea](https://forum.ionicframework.com/u/brandyshea)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2015, 8:39pm UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/ionicloading-on-specific-html-tag/15860/2 "2015-01-16T20:39:50Z")
So you just want to show a loading indicator in-line with the page but still let the user do things? The $ionicLoading is freezing the entire page so the user can’t navigate, click buttons, etc. while it loads the data.
If you just want to give the user a visual indication that something is loading, use a ng-if on a busy indicator icon (using Ionicons v1.5.2):
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Then, when you call the function to load the data you can set loadingData to true
```
$scope.loadingData = true;
```
and set it to false when the loading is done. You can style this icon to cover the entire content if you don’t want them to do anything on the page (except navigate away from it). You can also put this into a service and call a function to show/hide it if you need it on multiple pages.
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**Author:**  [@giorgiopagliara](https://forum.ionicframework.com/u/giorgiopagliara)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2015, 8:55am UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/ionicloading-on-specific-html-tag/15860/3 "2015-01-17T08:55:34Z")
Thanks @brandyshea for your help. Yes, that could be definitively a solution.
Anyway I think it could be useful to have `$ionicLoading` that could eventually freeze everything except menus, tabs and nav bars. I think this would create a better UX.
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**Author:**  [@dines](https://forum.ionicframework.com/u/dines)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2015, 5:12pm UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/ionicloading-on-specific-html-tag/15860/4 "2015-05-07T17:12:17Z")
@brandyshea that would work in terms of letting the user know but limits a fine-grain control over the user experience. A method to overlay just a specific html element would be very nice. I have a dashboard-type app, and I would like the user independent control over each box in the dashboard.