title: Ajax beforeSend function doesn't seem to work
body: <p>I have a form to send a small textfile to the server where it's data is processed with <strong>PHP</strong>. The result is shown in a colorbox. It works fine, but i want to show a small message to my user while his data is being uploaded and processed (which takes couple of seconds) and hide it again after the result is shown. But that message <code>(span#ajaxloading)</code> doesn't appear for some reason.</p>
  
  <p>HTML:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;button type="button" id="fixit"&gt;Fix it!&lt;/button&gt;&lt;span id="ajaxloading" style="display:none;"&gt;Your data is being processed...&lt;/span&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>jQuery:</p>
  
  <pre><code>jQuery("#fixit").click(function() {
      if(form.valid() == true ) {
          var formData = new FormData(jQuery('#ajastaja')[0]);
          jQuery.ajax({
              beforeSend: function(){
                  jQuery('#ajaxloading').show(); // &lt;- Not working!
              },
              url: '/path/to/my.php',
              type: 'POST',
              data: formData,
              async: false,
              success: function (data) {
                  jQuery('#ajaxloading').hide(); // &lt;- Works here
                  jQuery('#answerbox').html(data);
              },
              cache: false,
              contentType: false,
              processData: false
          });
          jQuery.colorbox({
              inline:true,
              href:'#answerbox',
              width:'500px',
              closeButton:false
          });
          return false;
      }
  });
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>When i remove the "display:none" rule it shows of course and hides after the color box pops up (like it should). So what i'm doing wrong? Thanks in advance!</p>
  
  <p>edit: I'm sorry for the confusion, <strong>the code is actually wrapped</strong> between jQuery(document).ready(function() { ... }); - it just contains a lot of JQuery Validation plugin methods, rules etc which shouldn't affect the issue i have.</p>