Sometimes you want to hide a page from users while it is loading and show an animated gif loading or wait image instead of it. You can check demo.

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For this we will add two div id in the css file. One is the #content id that will contain all the content of body inside it. Its display will be set to ‘none’.

Add another div id #loading that will show the loading gif image. Keep its z-index to a high value like 1000 or so.

div#content {
    display: none;
    }

div#loading {
    top: 200 px;
    margin: auto;
    position: absolute;
    z-index: 1000;
    width: 160px;
    height: 24px;
    background: url(loadingimage.gif) no-repeat;
    cursor: wait;
    }

Now add these div id into your html page as follows-

<div id="loading"></div>
<div id="content">your html content here......</div>

Now add the following javascript code into head section of your html page.

<script type="text/javascript">// <![CDATA[
        function preloader(){
            document.getElementById("loading").style.display = "none";
            document.getElementById("content").style.display = "block";
        }//preloader
        window.onload = preloader;
// ]]></script>

Display loading gif demo.

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