not server side delay so need to retain message on blank screen

my issue is i am geeting a 50 second delay on my screen ,which is occurring due to the large amount of data to be rendered on it.the delay is clearly not a server side delay.so currently the page is blank for a long duration before the completed page is shown.is there a way that i can show a message ..page loading please wait till the page is fully loaded.

i have a message now which but it shows for 3-4 seconds then the remaining 45 second no message appears because its not a server side delay.

<div id="wait" STYLE="position: absolute; top: 200; left: 200; visibility:hidden; font-size: 18pt; color: green; font-family: Verdana, Sans-seriff, Times;" >Searching for Items... Please Wait.</div>

There really is nothing you can do to control the rendering of the page.

Sounds to me like you really should not be returning so much data unless it is some printout.

Might be better to look into a lazy loading type of script or load a page, fetch the result with Ajax and than display the content.

Eric