I can't seem to make it happen quick enough. It always wants to go back to the server. I am using frames. In one frame, I set up my new Image()...

I can't seem to make it happen quick enough. It always wants to go back to the server. I am using frames. In one frame, I set up my new Image() variables and set them equal to the image source. In another frame, I use an IMG tag, but don't set the source. Every once in a while, I call a function in that page that sets the image objects' source to the source of the images of the other frame. It works fine, but if I run it on a slow server, you can see in the status bar that the browser is going back to the server for the images. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

No. Acutally, they are quite small. 7x30 px. JPEG files. I wish I could show you, but they are behind a firewall. The problem is that there are several of them and every one of them is causing the browser to go back to the server to download it again. Because of the firewalls and security setup, the site is a bit slow. My little images make it almost unbearable. Here is what I do: var tabSiteLeft = new Image(); var tabSiteRight = new Image(); tabSiteLeft.src = "images/tabSiteLeft.gif"; tabSiteRight.src = "images/tabSiteRight.gif"; Then, to use them, I do: document.tabSiteLeft.src = window.parent.frameHeader.tabSiteLeft.src; document.tabSiteRight.src = window.parent.frameHeader.tabSiteRight.src; I know in my text here, the naming looks confusing, but the first section is in a frame titled "frameHeader" and the second section is in another frame. I used the same name in both pages to make it simple. It was my assumption that the way I set up the images, the would be stored in the browser cache, and subsequent retreivals would happen from that cache, not the server. Is that wrong? Is that just IE's implementation. If so, what benifit is that? Is my problem due to the fact that I am using a different frame for setting up the image variables? Thanks for the replies!! John

Am I crazy, or is your site doing it too? I mean, if you look at the status bar while passing over several of them, you can see "Downloading picture http://blah blah blah" Since your images are small and your server is responding fast, it could be doing the same thing that mine is. What I mean is, does your page respond instantaneously if those image file are say 80k each???

Yeah, it was that for your page. I changed those settings so that it wouldn't behave that way for my site, but it was still doing it. I think it may be a case of being on a different page. I am going to move the stored image code to the corresponding page. The reason we set it up the way we did was because we used to reload those pages that used the images, but not the one that held them as variables. We no longer reload the page, but rather do a body.innerHtml to replace the page code but keep the globals. Thanks for your help. Oh yeah, and Nortel thanks you too. Later, John