HTML assistance requested.

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I've got a page with a big table on it, but parts of the table take a while to render, because it's doing lots of database work while it renders it.

Problem is, during the half-second or so before the entire table renders, only PART of it renders, and it breaks all of the alignment and stuff, so for that half-second, the page looks like crap before it magically all snaps into place right at the end.

Is there some HTML header tag I can use to instruct the browser not to show the page until it's received all of the HTML? Or a way to set up our web server (we're using an Apache/Tomcat combo) to not send pages until they're completely built? Or some other way of fixing this?

Thanks.

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Right, well, let's take a tally of the number of times I've asked for tech help on this board:

2

Now, let's, for contrast purposes, count up the number of times I've been helped during those attempts:

0.

I'd chalk this up to you all calling this a video game board, but I can still kick all your asses in Counterstrike, Robotron, Galaga, and (except for one of you) Crystal Castles, so that's no excuse.

[Guest]

Is it a workable solution to predetermine the sizes of cells/columns? (As it stands, it sounds like you're letting the content determine the size; you could opt to use % measurements.)

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All of the cells' sizes have been predetermined and pre-written into the code. It still refuses to cooperate.

[Guest]

Then what god have you offended, exactly?

[Devi Durga]

Then what god have you offended, exactly?

I am the INDIAN Goddess of knowledge, purity, knowledge, truth and self-realization, and HTML programming. I am offended by everything about Mr. Parrish.