Control order of serving page content?

Using IIS

[Lymeswold]

My first post on this (great!) site.

I'm running IIS. I assume it serves content in the order the content appears on a page. perhaps modified by the order in which the content can be retrieved from the disk or cache.

But sometimes, to have a page render more cleanly, I would like to specify a different order for that it was requested. For example if I have a large graphic I might want that to be sent last, so that the user can be reading the text while the graphic is rendering.

Is there any way to control that, either on the server or on the page? Obviously I can't control delivery from downstream caches, but it's the server in particular I'm wondering about.

Apologies if I'm mssing the blindingly obvious, or if this has already been answered elsewhere.

Lymeswold

[DaveN]

The main problem with html rendering is the browsers starts at the top and runs straight through loading the content has it reaches it the easiest way to control the content is by using a css and asp

read up in the CSS forum [webmasterworld.com] these guys will be able to tell how to position layers by using css. the so that an image at the top of the screen can be call at the bottom of your html/asp page.

Dave