Todd Baker wrote:
We are finding that the background images for our main navigation are downloading last and as such the white text is unreadable untill the background arrives
You're assuming the background image will arrive. What happens if someone has images turned off? You should specify a background colour as well.
Is there any logic I can apply (ordering CSS etc) that will affect the order the browser requests and downloads background images?
Browsers would likely request images in the order that they are required, though there is no guarantee of this. If the markup for the navigation appears last in the markup, then due to incremental rendering, it is likely that the images required to render it will be downloaded near the end. If it's at the top of the markup, then it seems logical that it would be downloaded near the beginning.
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