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I have a very slow connection, so when Web Pages load up I look at the Source code to see if the info I want has loaded yet, even if the entire page hasn’t loaded sometimes the info I'm after is in there source, so I press the 'Stop' button, hoping that the code loaded so far will display as normal, but a lot of the times it doesn't.

I was just wondering if there was a way of making it so if the code is downloaded, it's displaying in the browser immediately, rather than waiting for sections at a time??

Thanks in advance.

Quiet you, I don't have time to read previous answers :-)

Humorous how several persons mention the same thing in a lot of occurances.

:-D

Amusing how various people write the same solution on a number of seperate occasions
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Funny how different people post the same answer several times. :)

Officially, browsers don't display the entire page until all elements (images, etc) have been downloaded though. This, however, is a myth. IE and Netscape cut it out ages ago when they realised, quite frankly, it was a stupid idea.

I think that when images have the width and height attributes set, many browsers will load up the rest of the page, then go sort out the image in the space it's left for it. Otherwise, it gets the images before rendering. As i understand it, that's why html code checking programs (a la that dr html thing) show errors where image tags don't include the width and height.

Not exactly what you were looking for, and i'm not certain about it all, i just remember reading about it a while ago, but it should help speed up getting some onformation across and rendering the page before everything has been done.
Hope it helps.

Here she be:

http://htmlgoodies.earthweb.com/tutors/preload.html

Take a look and tell me if it helps.

There is a script which I saw once on HTMLGoodies which enables browsers to pre-load particular images, as told by the author of the page. I'll look into it for you and post what I find.

Not sure if I'm remembering this correctly but browsers generally cannot and will not render pages until they have all the information necessary to format the pages properly. What this means is if that tables (also table cells) and images etc lack height and width attributes then the browser won't render them until its loaded the image and seen the size for itself so it can render the page appropriately.

At least I think its something like that, browsing a few websites backs up my vague memory about it at least.

-G

Oh, right, the porn, ok gotch ya' :o)

I could change the sites, it's just it was one of my pre-PHP sites, so every page is coded indevitually rather than one with loads of PHP majic in it. But I don't think it takes long to load, it's not a image heavy page.

The site that I mainly mean is lycos, I used to play about with that love.lycos.co.uk a while ago, and if you looked at the saurce you'd see the entire code had loded, all the way down to the bit, but still if I pressed 'Stop' nothing would come up. Maybe it's a JavaScript thing?!?!

Who knows, but I'll remember that Table thing, thanks. Actually, if I just added the WIDTH=760 to each Table, it would still be alligned correctly, right??