At 12:43 30/07/2002 -0400, PF Soto wrote: >Hi all. I am puzzled as to why my bottom frame loads first on >http://www.ashgrovehouse.com/Version2/ >Do any of you know the "rules" for the order in which frames load? The >top frame is defined first, so don't know why it loads last?? Much >appreciate your help... It's almost certainly because the top frame is a larger document. The two documents will start loading simultaneously as soon as the browser has parsed the frameset - the bottom one appears to load first because it is smaller and takes less time to finish downloading. There is an interesting post explaining how browsers load images here which may help explain what is going on: http://www.sitepointforums.com/showthread.php?postid=507338#post507338 Regards, Simon Willison http://www.bath.ac.uk/~cs1spw/blog/ >Cheers, PF > >-- >For unsubscribe and other options, including >the Tip Harvester and archive of thelist go to: >http://lists.evolt.org Workers of the Web, evolt !