# Showing Load Bar before entire page loads?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/showing-load-bar-before-entire-page-loads/77917>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [January 31, 2005, 6:44pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/showing-load-bar-before-entire-page-loads/77917 "2005-01-31T18:44:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![2marshall8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/2/d07c76/32.png) [@2marshall8](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/2marshall8)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2005, 6:44pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/showing-load-bar-before-entire-page-loads/77917/1 "2005-01-31T18:44:41Z")

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How would I display a load bar with the main page’s download progress until it’s finished downloading? Basically, I don’t want anyone to see the site until everything has loaded. This is a site in frames, so each frame would have to load before anything appeared. I have around 9 frames. I have figured out how to show the progress bar when downloading a flash file before it’s displayed, but I’m not sure about how I could do this for an entire HTML/Flash site with many frames. I would really appreciate any help you can provide.

thanks  
marshall