Will Davies wrote:
>> Thanks very much Will, I shall give that a go tomorrow!
>>
> <STYLE TYPE="text/css">
> .counter {background-image:url('blank.gif');position:relative; 
> font-size:1em;height:2em;}
> </STYLE>
> ...
> <div class="counter" style="top:0em;">progress 1</div>
> <div class="counter" style="top:-2em;">progress 2</div>
> <div class="counter" style="top:-4em;">progress 3</div>
> <div class="counter" style="top:-6em;">progress 4</div>
> <div class="counter" style="top:-8em;">progress 5</div>
> 
> This is a bit neater. Note IE is stupid and will re-request the image 
> for every div. The divs do seem to get shown by IE and Firefox without 
> the whole page.
> 
> Will Davies
> http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~wmd04r
I just stumbled upon HTML Slidy at 
http://www.w3.org/Talks/Tools/Slidy/#(1) which is particularly nifty, 
and includes some 'incremental' features that might help with this issue.
cheers
Chris
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Chris Dennis                                  cgdennis@???
Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK