Every responsive website development tutorial recommends using the display:none CSS property to hide content from loading on mobile browsers so the website loads faster. Is it true? Does display:none not load the images or does it still load the content on mobile browser? Is there any way to prevent loading unnecessary content on mobile browsers?
Browsers are getting smarter. Today your browser (depending on the version) might skip the image loading if it can determine it's not useful.
The image has a display:none style but its size may be read by the script.
Chrome v68.0 does not load images if the parent is hidden.
You may check it there : http://jsfiddle.net/tnk3j08s/
You could also have checked it by looking at the "network" tab of your browser's developer tools.
Note that if the browser is on a small CPU computer, not having to render the image (and layout the page) will make the whole rendering operation faster but I doubt this is something that really makes sense today.
If you want to prevent the image from loading you may simply not add the IMG element to your document (or set the IMG src attribute to "data:" or "about:blank").
If you make the image a background-image of a div in CSS, when that div is set to "display: none", the image will not load. When CSS is disabled, it still will not load, because, well, CSS is disabled.
The answer is not as easy as a simple yes or no. Check out the results of a test I recently did:
In Chrome: All 8 screenshot-* images loaded (img 1)
In Firefox: Only the 1 screenshot-* image loaded that is currently being displayed (img 2)
So after digging further I found this, which explains how each browser handles loading img assets based on css display: none;
Excerpt from the blog post:
Chrome and Safari (WebKit): WebKit downloads the file every time except when a background is applied through a non-matching
media-query.
Firefox: Firefox won't download the image called with background image if the styles are hidden but they will still download assets
from img tags.
Opera: Like Firefox does, Opera won't load useless background-images.
Internet Explorer: IE, like WebKit will download background-images even if they have display: none;
Something odd appears with IE6 : Elements with a background-image and display: none set inline won't be downloaded... But they will be
if those styles aren't applied inline.
HTML5 <picture> tag will help you to resolve the right image source depending on the screen width
Apparently the browsers behaviour hasn't changed much over the past 5 years and many would still download the hidden images, even if there was a display: none property set on them.
Even though there's a media queries workaround, it could only be useful when the image was set as a background in the CSS.
While I was thinking that there's just a JS solution to the problem (lazy load, picturefill, etc.), it appeared that there's a nice pure HTML solution that comes out of the box with HTML5.
And that is the <picture> tag.
Here's how MDN describes it:
The HTML <picture> element is a container used to specify multiple <source> elements for a specific <img> contained in it. The browser will choose the most suitable source according to the current layout of the page (the constraints of the box the image will appear in) and the device it will be displayed on (e.g. a normal or hiDPI device.)
And here's how to use it:
<picture>
<source srcset="mdn-logo-wide.png" media="(min-width: 600px)">
<img src="mdn-logo-narrow.png" alt="MDN">
</picture>
The logic behind
The browser would load the source of the img tag, only if none of the media rules applies. When the <picture> element is not supported by the browser, it will again fallback to showing the img tag.
Normally you'd put the smallest image as the source of the <img> and thus not load the heavy images for larger screens. Vice versa, if a media rule applies, the source of the <img> will not be downloaded, instead it will download the url's contents of the corresponding <source> tag.
Only pitfall here is that if the element is not supported by the browser, it will only load the small image.
On the other hand in 2017 we ought to think and code in the mobile first approach.
And before someone got too exited, here's the current browser support for <picture>:
Desktop browsers
Mobile browsers
More about the browser support you can find on Can I use.
The good thing is that html5please's sentence is to use it with a fallback. And I personally intend to take their advise.
More about the tag you can find in the W3C's specification. There's a disclaimer there, which I find important to mention:
The picture element is somewhat different from the similar-looking video and audio elements. While all of them contain source elements, the source element’s src attribute has no meaning when the element is nested within a picture element, and the resource selection algorithm is different. As well, the picture element itself does not display anything; it merely provides a context for its contained img element that enables it to choose from multiple URLs.
So what it says is that it only helps you improve the performance when loading an image, by providing some context to it.
And you can still use some CSS magic in order to hide the image on small devices:
<style>
picture { display: none; }
#media (min-width: 600px) {
picture {
display: block;
}
}
</style>
<picture>
<source srcset="the-real-image-source" media="(min-width: 600px)">
<img src="a-1x1-pixel-image-that-will-be-hidden-in-the-css" alt="MDN">
</picture>
Thus the browser will not display the actual image and will only download the 1x1 pixel image (which can be cached if you use it more than once). Be aware, though, that if the <picture> tag is not supported by the browser, even on descktop screens the actual image won't be displayed (so you'll definitely need a polyfill backup there).
** 2019 Answer **
In a normal situation display:none doesn't prevent the image to be downloaded
/*will be downloaded*/
#element1 {
display: none;
background-image: url('https://picsum.photos/id/237/100');
}
But if an ancestor element has display:none then the descendant's images will not be downloaded
/* Markup */
<div id="father">
<div id="son"></div>
</div>
/* Styles */
#father {
display: none;
}
/* #son will not be downloaded because the #father div has display:none; */
#son {
background-image: url('https://picsum.photos/id/234/500');
}
Other situations that prevent the image to be downloaded:
1- The target element doesn't exist
/* never will be downloaded because the target element doesn't exist */
#element-dont-exist {
background-image: url('https://picsum.photos/id/240/400');
}
2- Two equal classes loading different images
/* The first image of #element2 will never be downloaded because the other #element2 class */
#element2 {
background-image: url('https://picsum.photos/id/238/200');
}
/* The second image of #element2 will be downloaded */
#element2 {
background-image: url('https://picsum.photos/id/239/300');
}
You can watch for yourself here: https://codepen.io/juanmamenendez15/pen/dLQPmX
It seems browsers still download images even though they are directly or indirectly hidden with display: none property.
The only standard way to prevent this from happening I found is using loading attribute of the img tag:
<img src="https://cdn.test/img.jpg" loading="lazy">
All latest browsers support it except Safari and Firefox Android.
MDN img loading attribute specification.
Yes it will render faster, slightly, only because it doesn't have to render the image and is one less element to sort on the screen.
If you don't want it loaded, leave a DIV empty where you can load html into it later containing an <img> tag.
Try using firebug or wireshark as I've mentioned before and you'll see that the files DO get transferred even if display:none is present.
Opera is the only browser which will not load the image if the display is set to none. Opera has now moved to webkit and will render all images even if their display is set to none.
Here is a testing page that will prove it:
http://www.quirksmode.org/css/displayimg.html
Quirks Mode: images and display: none
When image has display: none or is inside an element with
display:none, the browser may opt not to download the image until the display
is set to another value.
Only Opera downloads the image when you switch the display to block.
All other browsers download it immediately.
The background-image of a div element will load if the div is set do 'display:none'.
Anyway, if that same div has a parent and that parent is set to 'display:none', the background-image of the child element will not load. :)
Example using bootstrap:
<link href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.7/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet" integrity="sha384-BVYiiSIFeK1dGmJRAkycuHAHRg32OmUcww7on3RYdg4Va+PmSTsz/K68vbdEjh4u" crossorigin="anonymous">
<div class="col-xs-12 visible-lg">
<div style="background-image: url('http://via.placeholder.com/300x300'); background-repeat:no-repeat; height: 300px;">lg</div>
</div>
<div class="col-xs-12 visible-md">
<div style="background-image: url('http://via.placeholder.com/200x200'); background-repeat:no-repeat; height: 200px;">md</div>
</div>
<div class="col-xs-12 visible-sm">
<div style="background-image: url('http://via.placeholder.com/100x100'); background-repeat:no-repeat; height: 100px">sm</div>
</div>
<div class="col-xs-12 visible-xs">
<div style="background-image: url('http://via.placeholder.com/50x50'); background-repeat:no-repeat; height: 50px">xs</div>
</div>
If you make the image a background-image of a div in CSS, when that div is set to 'display: none', the image will not load.
Just expanding on Brent's solution.
You can do the following for a pure CSS solution, it also makes the img box actually behave like an img box in a responsive design setting (that's what the transparent png is for), which is especially useful if your design uses responsive-dynamically-resizing images.
<img style="display: none; height: auto; width:100%; background-image:
url('img/1078x501_1.jpg'); background-size: cover;" class="center-block
visible-lg-block" src="img/400x186_trans.png" alt="pic 1 mofo">
The image will only be loaded when the media query tied to visible-lg-block is triggered and display:none is changed to display:block. The transparent png is used to allow the browser to set appropriate height:width ratios for your <img> block (and thus the background-image) in a fluid design (height: auto; width: 100%).
1078/501 = ~2.15 (large screen)
400/186 = ~2.15 (small screen)
So you end up with something like the following, for 3 different viewports:
<img style="display: none; height: auto; width:100%; background-image: url('img/1078x501_1.jpg'); background-size: cover;" class="center-block visible-lg-block" src="img/400x186_trans.png" alt="pic 1">
<img style="display: none; height: auto; width:100%; background-image: url('img/517x240_1.jpg'); background-size: cover;" class="center-block visible-md-block" src="img/400x186_trans.png" alt="pic 1">
<img style="display: none; height: auto; width:100%; background-image: url('img/400x186_1.jpg'); background-size: cover;" class="center-block visible-sm-block" src="img/400x186_trans.png" alt="pic 1">
And only your default media viewport size images load during the initial load, then afterwards, depending on your viewport, images will dynamically load.
And no javascript!
If so is there a way to not load the unnecessary content on mobile
browsers?
use <img src="" srcset="">
http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2015/08/the-state-of-responsive-images/
https://caniuse.com/#feat=srcset
To prevent fetching resources, use the <template> element of Web Components.
Use #media query CSS, basically we just release a project where we had an enormous image of a tree on desktop at the side but not showing in table/mobile screens. So prevent image from loading its quite easy
Here is a small snippet:
.tree {
background: none top left no-repeat;
}
#media only screen and (min-width: 1200px) {
.tree {
background: url(enormous-tree.png) top left no-repeat;
}
}
You can use the same CSS to show and hide with display/visibility/opacity but image was still loading, this was the most fail safe code we came up with.
Hi guys I was struggling with the same issue, how to not load an image on mobile.
But I figured out a good solution. First make an img tag and then load a blank svg in the src attribute. Now you can set your URL to the image as an inline style with content: url('link to your image');. Now wrap your img tag in a wrapper of your choice.
<div class="test">
<img src="data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22/%3E" style="content:url('https://blog.prepscholar.com/hubfs/body_testinprogress.gif?t=1495225010554')">
</div>
#media only screen and (max-width: 800px) {
.test{
display: none;
}
}
Set the wrapper to display none on the breakpoint where you dont want to load the image. The inline css of the img tag is now ignored since the style of an element wrapped in a wrapper with display none will be ignored, therefore the image is not loaded, until you reach a breakpoint where the wrapper has display block.
There you go, really easy way not to load an img on mobile breakpoint :)
Check out this codepen, for a working example: http://codepen.io/fennefoss/pen/jmXjvo
No.The image will be loaded as usual and will still use the user’s bandwidth if you are considering the mobile phone user bandwidth saving.What u can do is to use media query and filter the devices that you want your image to be loaded.Your image must be set as a background image of a div,etc and NOT an tag since the the image tag will load the image regardless if the screen size and the media query set.
we're talking about images not loading on mobile, right? so what if you just did an #media (min-width: 400px){background-image:thing.jpg}
wouldn't it then only look for the image at above a certain screen width?
Another possibility is using a <noscript> tag and placing the image inside the <noscript> tag. Then use javascript to remove the noscript tag as you need the image. In this way you can load images on demand using progressive enhancement.
Use this polyfill I wrote to read the contents of <noscript> tags in IE8
https://github.com/jameswestgate/noscript-textcontent
The trick to using display:none with images is to assign them an id. This was there is not a lot of code needed to make it work. Here is an example using media queries and 3 stylesheets. One for phone, one for tablet, and one for desktop. I have 3 images, image of a phone, a tablet, and a desktop. On a phone screen only an image of the phone will display, a tablet will display only the tablet image, a desktop displays on the desktop computer image.
Here is a code example to make it work:
Source code:
<div id="content">
<img id="phone" src="images/phone.png" />
<img id="tablet" src="images/tablet.png" />
<img id="desktop" src="images/desktop.png" />
</div>
The phone CSS which doesn't need a media query. Its the img#phone that makes it work:
img#phone {
display: block;
margin: 6em auto 0 auto;
width: 70%;
}
img#tablet {display: none;}
img#desktop {display: none;}
The tablet css:
#media only screen and (min-width: 641px) {
img#phone {display: none;}
img#tablet {
display: block;
margin: 6em auto 0 auto;
width: 70%;
}
}
And the desktop css:
#media only screen and (min-width: 1141px) {
img#tablet {display: none;}
img#desktop {
display: block;
margin: 6em auto 0 auto;
width: 80%;
}
}
Good luck and let me know how it works for you.
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i have designed slide show from mycarousel with help of php, is working fine, but in frnt of carousel on left side the hyperlinks are not working till the height of carousel. on left side all links are not working if image is as large as the height covered by links...... you may try the third slide /image of carousel as its height is small so many hyperlinks came after its height are working.
why this is happening on chrome, while on internet explorer all links are working normally.
in bootstap.min.css file i have decleared width 539 and height auto,
.carousel-inner>.item>a>img, .carousel-inner>.item>img, .img-responsive, .thumbnail a>img, .thumbnail>img {
display: block;
max-width: 539;
height: auto;}
In css in index2.php i decleared
<style>
.carousel-inner > .item > img,
.carousel-inner > .item > a > img {
width: 100%;
margin: auto;
}
#myCarousel.carousel.slide {width: 100%; max-width: 539px; !important}
.carousel-caption {
background:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3) !important;
}
</style>
links are not working outeside carousel can java help if then how, plz i dont know much about java
What I understood from your question, some hyper links are not clickable because of the container of the carousel are placed over the links which are not clickable. A quick solution is to remove the class name "container" from the closest block about the carousel. like use class="sd" instead class="container sd".
Also please note that the class name "container" are the predefined class from bootstrap css which is need to be use for a proper area and with a proper structure.
For debug the issue use a html/css inspector tools like firebug etc, it will help you lot to learn about DOM tree.
Using your browser's developer tools to inspect elements on the page, you will see there is a <div class='container sd'> extending to the left of your carousel, and overlapping your links - which stops them from working as the div gets the click events instead. Removing the container class 'fixes' the links with slight effects on the centering of your carousel.
The relevant Bootstrap documentation specifically states that containers are not nestable, and since you are already using a container-fluid as the topmost element you will need to solve that centering issue some other way.
Everytime I add a Gallery in a post, I need to modify the html from
[gallery type="rectangular" link="none" ids="1743,1742,1741"]
to
<div style="margin: 0 auto; width: 500px;">
[gallery type="rectangular" link="none" ids="1743,1742,1741"]
</div>
I want to modify the php file to have this extra html added. Is this possible to do? I have limited knowledge on php and am struggling to find where this gallery tag is generated.
The gallery gets generated in a <div> with class="gallery" and some variable classes, depending on the gallery settings. See wp-includes/media.php#L1046.
So, you can simply add the following style in your stylesheet (styles.css), or using a plugin like Simple Custom CSS.
.gallery {
margin: 0 auto;
width: 500px;
}
If your theme is responsive, I would suggest to also set the maximum width to 100% to make sure it fits smaller screens as well.
.gallery {
margin: 0 auto;
width: 500px;
max-width: 100%;
}
Do note that since you specifically add "rectangular" as type, you might want to use a different class than gallery to make sure the styles do not get applied to other galleries.
To verify which class can be used, you can inspect the gallery in your browser:
Hover over the gallery,
click on right mouse button and select 'inspect element'.
I hope that helps. GL!
I'm using a jquery plugin to create an image slider with thumbnails underneath.
My goal is to have the main image's background be bg.png, with the thumbnail section background be wood.png.
I've changed the CSS to what I believe to be correct(see below), but the background of the thumbnail section isn't extending the full 961px, it's restricted to the 921px width I've established with the main image. I have a feeling this might be due to nesting within the plugin's php/jquery, I'm just not sure how to go about altering it to work. If that is the case, how do I fix it? If it's something else, how do I determine what it is/how to fix it?
thethe-image-slider.php
timthumb.php
live site
Thanks.
CSS
.thethe_image_slider.white-square-1{
background: url('../images/bg.png');
}
.white-square-1 .thethe-image-slider-thumbnails{
background: url('../images/wood.png');
margin-top: 20px;
margin-bottom: 40px;
width: 961px;
}
find this line
<div class="thethe_image_slider white-square-1" id="thethe_image_slider323" style="width:921px;"><div class="thethe_image_slider_inner" style="width:921px; height:392px;">
and change to this
<div class="thethe_image_slider white-square-1" id="thethe_image_slider323" style="width:961px;"><div class="thethe_image_slider_inner" style="width:921px; height:392px;margin:0 auto;">
in your code
Move your thethe-image-slider-thumbnails div out of your thethe_image_slider white-square-1 div but inside the gallery div. Works fine for me then.
I am looking for a solution to deliver a "wallpaper" banner with the adserver "openx". A wallpaper consists of a leaderboard banner (728x90 px) and a vertical skyscraper. I cant find any option in OpenX itself, so I guess there must be some kind of dirty methods to get it done.
Anyone here having experiences with it? I'm thinking of delivering just an leaderboard banner and then attaching a html snipped to the banner - which contains the markup to my skyscraper-banner... :-/
greg0ire > You can see an example of a "wallpaper" banner on this site (you might experience an overlay banner before, make sure you disable ad blocking extensions): http://www.allocine.fr/ Some days it is in flash, other days it is just a background-image css property set on the body element. I'd like to achieve the second option.
Thanks!
I got wallpapers ads to work through openx using this method.
First I created a div below the content wrapper of my site (using wordpress, header.php file).
<div id="adbg" style=" margin: 0pt auto; height: 1000px; width: 100%; position: fixed; cursor:pointer; ">
Then I created a div block with the wallpaper image in the CSS and added it to OpenX as a TEXT BANNER
<div OnClick="location.href='#';" style="background: url('image.jpg') no-repeat scroll center top #026eb4; height: 100%; width: 100%; margin: 0pt auto; cursor:pointer; "></div>
Finally, I took the openx embed code and place it within the ADBG div I pasted above.
This technique worked well for me on all browsers.
You can of course take the CSS in the adbg div and store it in your CSS file.
For the moment, I ended up doing this, but I'd like to see better solutions:
<div class="openx_<?php echo $_block->getBlockParameter('css_class');?> openx_background hidden">
<?php echo str_replace('INSERT_RANDOM_NUMBER_HERE', rand(0, 9000), $_block->getBlockParameter('html', ESC_RAW));?>
<?php echo javascript_tag()?>
var checkImg = window.setInterval(function(){
if (jQuery('.openx_background img').length)
{
jQuery("body").css('background', 'url("' + jQuery('.openx_background img').attr('src') + '") no-repeat');
window.clearInterval(checkImg);
}
}, 1000);
//give up 3 s later
setTimeout(function(){
if (jQuery('.openx_background img').length == 0)
{
clearInterval(checkImg);
}
}, 3001);
<?php echo end_javascript_tag()?>
</div>
$_block->getBlockParameter('html', ESC_RAW) contains the openx javascript invocation code.
Not sure if this is still of interest, but there's a setting in openX for that called "Companion positioning". Have a look at the OpenX reference guide under point 4.6:
http://opensourceusers.com/sites/default/files/openx_reference_guide.pdf
It's a method to make sure that a skyscraper is delivered every time a certain leaderboard is delivered. You can then use the prepend/append functionality to color the background to turn this "hockey stick" into a full blown wallpaper.