Will an image with style=“display: none” still be downloaded and cached?

Question

I\'m trying to figure out a way to cache the next and previous images in my gallery script ... I\'m wondering if this is a good way to do it. Also, is there any way to manually

Answer 1

display: none images will be downloaded and cached on the client. However, JavaScript already has a well-defined way of preloading images:

  var nextImage = new Image();
  nextImage.src = "your-url/newImage.gif";

This will preload an image without displaying it to the user.