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Dialog and text boxes flash on the screen before the index page contents are shown
Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2025 8:28 pm
by mike@vpnywhere.net
My site has a number of dialog and text boxes attached to the index page. When I refresh my main web site page, all of the dialog and text boxes flash on the screen before the index page contents are shown. How can I prevent these dialog and text boxes from displaying when the site is loading? Thanks!
Re: Dialog and text boxes flash on the screen before the index page contents are shown
Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2025 5:30 am
by Pablo
Without seeing what you have done with will be difficult to help you.
But if you have a lot of content then it may take some time before the browser has processed the HTML/CSS.
Re: Dialog and text boxes flash on the screen before the index page contents are shown
Posted: Sat Jun 21, 2025 4:19 am
by mike@vpnywhere.net
Understood. Here are two screenshots. screenshot -1.jpg is while the page is loading and the screenshot-2.jpg file is the page after loading. I reference all of the dialog boxes and their text, I just don't want it visible while the page is being loaded. Is there a wysiwyg setting somewhere or an html directive?
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/7rvxd85d ... 78oux&dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/x1y0kmbx ... 7e4cj&dl=0
Re: Dialog and text boxes flash on the screen before the index page contents are shown
Posted: Sat Jun 21, 2025 6:00 am
by Pablo
I'm sorry, but the screenshots do not give nay useful information.
What is the URL of the page?
What are your exact settings?
How to reproduce the problem?
Re: Dialog and text boxes flash on the screen before the index page contents are shown
Posted: Sat Jun 21, 2025 6:50 am
by mike@vpnywhere.net
It's not publicly accessible. The two images are frames from a video I took of the loading process for the main web page. The first image depicts a video frame of the dialog templates and text which are being loaded just prior to the target window. The second image simply shows after loading completes. The dialogs and associated text are just wysiwyg dialog boxes I added to the main index page. I just need to know how to suppress the dialog data and text from showing while the page loads.
Re: Dialog and text boxes flash on the screen before the index page contents are shown
Posted: Sat Jun 21, 2025 9:47 am
by Pablo
The software has thousands of options and millions of possible combinations
To be able to help you, I need more details about what you have done and your settings.
Note that you can control / optimize the HTML output in Tools -> Options -> HTML
Re: Dialog and text boxes flash on the screen before the index page contents are shown
Posted: Sat Jun 21, 2025 11:12 pm
by mike@vpnywhere.net
That's all I needed. "Visibility Property: visibility:none" eliminated the artifacts.
