Website Design Forum

**deepman007** · 06-09-2008, 06:34 PM

Hi

Why is it that page reloads every time I go to a new page on the site even though they shared the same background image?http://www.ahzhou.com/tests

**nyef** · 06-09-2008, 07:41 PM

I don't think it's actually reloading the image, I think it's just that the rendition of the background image isn't as fast as on Firefox, so you see it "flash" as it's rendering the page. I think?

**vangogh** · 06-09-2008, 09:12 PM

I think the flash you see might have something to do with the image of the car that you don't see in the background trying to be displayed by IE.

It's a guess, but I think IE is first trying to display that image quickly before the image you do see is displayed. Neither looks like it's being reloaded though.

**deepman007** · 06-10-2008, 12:36 AM

So, Is there anything I can do to stop IE from doing that or is there a solution?

**vangogh** · 06-10-2008, 08:43 PM

I'm guessing again, but I'm wondering if instead of that image being a background on the body you made it a background on another container div.

You'd have mostly the same code you have now, but there would be another wrapper div around your code and that div would get the car image as a css background image.

**deepman007** · 06-11-2008, 02:27 PM

What I'm trying to do is to have a body ground for the whole site and then have another background on top of it for the site itself as a template. I don't get what you are saying about another wrapper div ?

**vangogh** · 06-11-2008, 08:15 PM

That image will only fill up the background for some people. Anyone with a resolution width greater than 850px is still going to see a white background and will see that image behind the other one.

What I'm saying is you have something like:

<body>
<div> add your body background image to this div

<div>
this div holds your main image
</div>

</div>
</body>

If you then center the extra div I'm suggesting everything will look the way it does now. I'm certain that'll fix the flashing problem. That's just a guess on my part, but setting up the extra div and moving the background image from the body to the new div is fairly simple and won't take too long to find out if it works.