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Asked: 2026-05-15T20:09:30+00:00

I am looking at building a web page which is going to have a

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I am looking at building a web page which is going to have a list of over 100 medium sized images and unfortunately I will not have any access to a database.

The user will be filtering through the images and displaying around 8(at most) at a time.

The idea is to filter through the images using jQuery and CSS classes, to show/hide etc, but even if all images are hidden, they will still have to be loaded once the page is opened.

What would be the best way of dealing with this, so the page loading time won’t be ridiculous, some sort of java prefetching etc? I am unsure if there is a simple solution to this, but any ideas would be appreciated!

Thanks.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Ouch, sounds like a nightmare.

    Using jQuery / CSS isn’t really going to speed anything up using a naive show / hide implementation, but you should be able to get a way with using Ajax to load sets of images in on the fly when the user presses the filter button.

    Another option might be to use XML with XSLT to act as a sort of mock-database (it’s a fairly horrible solution, but the spec is a little horrible too).

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