Blanking on page loads

[psmurf]

Hello everyone,

Does anyone know a way to get around the white flash that you get in IE when you load a page? I am working on a site that uses a header/navbar which flickers when navigating between pages in the site. Any suggestions appreciated.

AB

[BlobFisk]

Welcome to WebmasterWorld, psmurf!

Are you using CSS layouts? If so, I wonder if you are seeing IE's Flash of Unstyled Content (FOUC). It is explained in detail here [bluerobot.com] at BlueRobot.

[psmurf]

I am using CSS layouts, but the problem is much simpler than the 'FOUC' phenomenom. I am not seeing unstyled content, just a blank white page very briefly before each page is displayed. From my observations, most sites seem to exhibit this behavior with IE (6), but if I look at something like cnn.com I do not see a white flash between pages.

AB

[pageoneresults]

Are you using includes of some sort? I've seen this behavior also with IE and just chalk it up to browser specific behavior as it does not happen too frequently with other browsers.

It would be nice if the static elements remained constant, like in a framed site.

[psmurf]

Nope, not using any includes. I think on my site it stands out to me more than on other sites because it is hosted off of a 384k SDSL line, so the low server performance makes it more obvious.