Making website - don't want image icon

[vendo1]

I'm making a website, and there is an image on my site that while loading display the box with the image icon in the top left corner. I want to remove this so that when the page is loading I dont see the image icon, just a blank space.

How do I do this?

[bAdWaYz]

I will movie this to the website/graphics forum where you are likely to get the help you are looking for. In the mean time if you could post a link to your page so folks can see an exapmple of what you are asking about it may help get a fix faster.

[vendo1]

Example:
This is what I don't want:
http://img95.imageshack.us/img95/484/pic14np.jpg

This is what I want:
http://img354.imageshack.us/img354/2144/pic25rf.jpg

During those few miliseconds when the image is loading, I don't want to have the image icon and box.

Is there a piece of code I can use, or something to do this?

[rockboy]

If you are in fact loading an image I think it's the users' browser that determines what they see. I don't know if there's a way to make the image loading "hidden".

[vendo1]

When I go to Microsoft's website, for example, the not-yet loaded pictures do not have the image icon, just a blank space where the image should be.

That is what I'm trying to do.

[MishY]

Can we see a link to the webpage you are making ?

[vendo1]

I would rather not.

[bAdWaYz]

In order for some one to suggest the right code it would help to see the wrong code. What you are asking here is like telling doctor something is wrong with you but that you would rather he not give you an exam. Good luck with your webpage hope it works out.

[vendo1]

I have not published my site.

Why would there be anything wrong with the code? It's the same as any picture on the net - it has a loading image icon, and I would like to know if there is a way to remove it/leave it blank.

[thestickman]

can you post a link to a page where the image icon doesnt show? I have a feeling it is to do with the language used but im not sure. might be able to find out with an exmaple though.
phil

[vendo1]

www.microsoft.com

[thestickman]

I get image icons there im afraid.

Thinking about it more, i think youll always get image icons if there standard embedded images. To get around it youd have to make them flash or java insets/objects. You could try maknig hte jpegs/gifs progressive/interlaced. This means that theyll load in multiple passes, so the image icon will dissappear before the image has totally loaded and thus will be seen less. I think perhaps that happening on the microsoft site?
all the best,phil

[oracle128]

I too get loading image icons at the MS site. What you see while an image loads IS up to the browser. One workaround might be to put the image as the background of a blank cingle-cell table, but I haven't tested that.