How do i make my background load 1st?

[Ryaby21]

The code i am using is for my myspace, the problem is that i have alot of things on my myspace which makes the loading time sometimes quite slow. What i'm wondering is if there is any code i can use to make my background be the first thing loaded wen the page opens? If so could you tell me how to go about doing that plz.. Thnx, Ry :)

[AricC]

The code i am using is for my myspace, the problem is that i have alot of things on my myspace which makes the loading time sometimes quite slow. What i'm wondering is if there is any code i can use to make my background be the first thing loaded wen the page opens? If so could you tell me how to go about doing that plz.. Thnx, Ry :)

How big is the background picture? You should try to keep background pics small. You can use javascript to preload images here is a link with info.

[pbmods]

The only way that you could reliably do that would be to only put the body in your HTML and load the rest of the content dynamically (i.e., using AJAX / DOM) after the body loads.

In practice, this is ridiculously difficult, and it defeats the purpose of what you're trying to accomplish, since the people that visit your page will be much more interested in your content than your background.

If you had a dark background, and your text were white, then the text wouldn't be visible until the background image loaded (though the side effect of that is that, in the User's mind, the page would take a lot longer to load, since from his perspective, *NOTHING* loaded until your background did).