Paul Novitski wrote: > 2) Preload the hover-state images by marking them up on the page in a > way that doesn't show -- such as shifting them off-screen with a > large negative margin-left in CSS. By the time the page finishes > loading, they will already be in cache and will appear > immediately. One small disadvantage here is that your page might > contain semantically unnecessary markup to support these image > preloader elements. > > 3) Preload the hover-state images with javascript. Disadvantages are > the additional clutter of the script itself and the fact that > preloading won't happen when scripting is disabled.
4) Use CSS: a:link,a:visited {background:url(up_image.gif) no-repeat 0 50%;background-image:url(down_image.gif)} a:hover,a:active,a:focus {background-image:url(up_image.gif)} --- Regards, Thierry | www.TJKDesign.com ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************