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Thank you for your comment. &nbsp;Would the following also work?<br />
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&lt;div align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;div id=&quot;crossslide&quot; style=&quot;width:1000px;height<wbr />:602px;bac<wbr />kground-im<wbr />age: url(Rotator/1.jpg);&quot;&gt;&lt;/div<wbr />&gt;
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Thank you for your comment.  Would the following also work?

<div align="center"><div id="crossslide" style="width:1000px;height:602px;background-image: url(Rotator/1.jpg);"></div>

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It should, but there is a possibility that you'll see that background image during transitions.<br />
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Regards
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It should, but there is a possibility that you'll see that background image during transitions.

Regards

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You're welcome and thanks for the points.
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You're welcome and thanks for the points.

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I am using a jQuery slide show called CrossSlide, which is introduced at <a href="http://tobia.github.com/CrossSlide/" rel="ugc nofollow">http://tobia.github.com/CrossSlide/</a>&nbsp; &nbsp;My web page is at <a href="http://www.mauitradewinds.com/Experts" rel="ugc">www.mauitradewinds.com/Experts</a>&nbsp; I need some guidance regarding how to implement the author's method of inserting a placeholder (the first image in the slide show) so that there is not a blank screen while images are loading. Please ignore the broken links on my web page -- I haven't uploaded files which are unrelated to the question at hand.
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I am using a jQuery slide show called CrossSlide, which is introduced at http://tobia.github.com/CrossSlide/   My web page is at www.mauitradewinds.com/Experts  I need some guidance regarding how to implement the author's method of inserting a placeholder (the first image in the slide show) so that there is not a blank screen while images are loading. Please ignore the broken links on my web page -- I haven't uploaded files which are unrelated to the question at hand.

Inserting a placeholder while images are loading

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