[Resolved] Loading order

[DJ-Sound]

loading order

I need some assistance, how do I get a headline on a rather large sales page to load before anything else does?

Some told me look into onload= functions in the body tag, no luck yet

any help is appreciated!

Thanks,
-Ryan

 

[Amnezia]

erm body onload won't help at all. onload will only execute after all the html in the body has loaded, this is the oposite of what you want.

Basically the time at which elments are loaded is dependant on the browser but in general they use the following rule.

The page is rendered in the order of the HTML except for images which load separately.

 

[DJ-Sound]

Any ideas?

 

[Peter]

it will never load before anything else does but you can bring it up the chain by using things like css positioning which helps you have the content of the html page in the order you would like it to load.

What is the problem at the moment does your page not show until everything is loaded or is it a case that a lot of other stuff loads before the headline?

 

[DJ-Sound]

The page is a massive sales letter that takes almost a min to load on a 56k connection. So we had to have the headline load before the rest to give visitors something to read.

The fix was simply making the headline a image, pre-loading the image in javascript and that seems to work great.

Thanks,
-Ryan