Page Load/Render order.

[MattyUK]

In some pages, IE renders the document as it goes and you can see the elements appear are they are loaded. That is the normal default mode. It basically displays the results as it renders them. So you can see the page before it has completely fishished rendering. like the images resize once they load and the text reflow around them.

However if you use ActiveX in the page IE changes from the default render mode and doesn't display any of the rendered code until the entire page has been loaded and rendered. That is every thing is loaded, a blank screen is displayed until all has loaded and the rendereing done THEN the page is displayed in one hit by the browser.

Late one night a while ago I found this behaviour detailed at Microsoft MSDN but cannot find it again.

I need to know how to swtich this rendering behavoir from one mode to the other at will without having to load an @ActiveX control.

Does anybody else know what I'm on about here?

Yours hopefully
MattyUK

[MattyUK]

Actually I'm not sure if this should be in this forum, DOM scripting or Javascript (it is JS I'd use to set the property). My appologies if it is in teh wrong one. Perhaps a moderator could move it.

MattyUK