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tunachips Nervous Wreck (II) Inmate From: Benton, confused, USA Insane since: Nov 2002	posted 01-13-2003 01:35 I'm trying to figure out why my page is doing what it is doing. If my browser is showing another page, like this one, and I try to load my page, sometimes I will get a blank white background, or it will show the previous page. In both cases, you can see in the status bar images and such loading. It is not until all or almost all of the page items are loaded that it, all at once, pops onto the screen. I have a div on z-index of 8 that is black and a <body onload.. call to a function that turns that div to hidden. You can see this black div for a second. I have my windows taskbar on the leftside of my screen, as opposed to on the bottom. If I touch the taskbar for a sec, so it pops out and goes back in, I can see the background color of my page where the taskbar once was, but the rest of the screen is either white or showing the previous page. What I would like to know is how does IE draw a screen, or dislay a page? I know that text generally will show first, then the bg image and then the other images will start to load in the order they were called. Does z-indexing make any difference? Does a z-index of 1 display before a z-index of 4? I wasn't having this problem until I converted my css laiden html file into a php script. Test_1.php is a script that fopens/freads a css template and a test.html. The test.html is a basic plain text doc. Test_1.php strips out the html tags and inserts the text into the css template. The text is inserted at the every last part of the css template, before closing div tags and closing body and htnl tags. I'm wondering what ie has to see or get before it starts to display a page? Any help would be, well, helpful Thanks btw, the page in question is http://www.loveobjects.com/test_1.php [This message has been edited by tunachips (edited 01-13-2003).]
DL-44 Maniac (V) Inmate From: under the bed Insane since: Feb 2000	posted 01-13-2003 03:08 IE 6.0 - page background color, colored scrollbars, black section with a border load right away..all the rest of the content a moment or two later.

I'm trying to figure out why my page is doing what it is doing. If my browser is showing another page, like this one, and I try to load my page, sometimes I will get a blank white background, or it will show the previous page. In both cases, you can see in the status bar images and such loading. It is not until all or almost all of the page items are loaded that it, all at once, pops onto the screen.

I have a div on z-index of 8 that is black and a <body onload.. call to a function that turns that div to hidden. You can see this black div for a second. I have my windows taskbar on the leftside of my screen, as opposed to on the bottom. If I touch the taskbar for a sec, so it pops out and goes back in, I can see the background color of my page where the taskbar once was, but the rest of the screen is either white or showing the previous page.

What I would like to know is how does IE draw a screen, or dislay a page? I know that text generally will show first, then the bg image and then the other images will start to load in the order they were called. Does z-indexing make any difference? Does a z-index of 1 display before a z-index of 4?

I wasn't having this problem until I converted my css laiden html file into a php script. Test_1.php is a script that fopens/freads a css template and a test.html. The test.html is a basic plain text doc. Test_1.php strips out the html tags and inserts the text into the css template. The text is inserted at the every last part of the css template, before closing div tags and closing body and htnl tags.

I'm wondering what ie has to see or get before it starts to display a page?

Any help would be, well, helpful
Thanks

btw, the page in question is http://www.loveobjects.com/test_1.php

[This message has been edited by tunachips (edited 01-13-2003).]

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