tables

In IE 5+, a <table> is never displayed before the complete table is loaded in the browser. Is there a way to avoid this? e.g. to display the first 100 rows when they are received by the browser

Try using <tbody>:

Code:

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<table>
  <tbody>
    <tr><td>First 100 rows</td></tr>
  </tbody>

  <tbody>
    <tr><td>Next 100 rows</td></tr>
  </tbody>
</table>

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You should really use it to group related material, so try and do that if you can. You can also use <thead> for placing content at the start of the table, and <tfoot> for that the bottom. thead and tfoot both must be before tbody.

Another way is to divide the table. Like this:
<table>
<tr><td>..</td></tr>
<tr><td>..</td></tr>
<tr><td>..</td></tr>
<tr><td>..</td></tr>
</table><table>
<tr><td>..</td></tr>
<tr><td>..</td></tr>
<tr><td>..</td></tr>
<tr><td>..</td></tr>
</table><table>
<tr><td>..</td></tr>
<tr><td>..</td></tr>
<tr><td>..</td></tr>
<tr><td>..</td></tr>
</table>

Putting a table before other with no space or tags beetwen them makes the IE generate one big table instead a lot o little ones.