display while downloading

[blackhorse]

Firefox default set up display while downloading. Internet explorer set up display after the downloading is finished.

What php and/or html code we can set up to tell firefox display after the whole page downloading is finished.

And will firefox listen to my php and/or html codes?

I am checking out Output Control Functions, but I didn't see how them can be used for this purpose.

Thanks!

[bradgrafelman]

The quickest-and-dirtiest way I can think of off the top of my head is to wrap your entire page in a div with a "visibility: hidden" style property. Then, once the page is loaded (e.g. use window.onload to fire a JS function when this happens), change that div's visibility value to "visible".

While the page is loading, you could have a div display that says "Loading..." or whatever. Obviously, when you toggle the other div's visibility, you would set this 'loading' div to "display: none".

[NogDog]

Just a side-note: IE does not wait until everything is downloaded to display it. However, if you are using a table-based page layout - particularly one with nested tables - then IE does tend to wait until it has downloaded all of the contents required to render those tables before calculating the table cell dimensions and then finally displaying everything; whereas Firefox will usually start displaying things as it can, possibly readjusting table cell dimensions as needed to account for additional data as it is received.