Loading sprites 1 time, or many times? <p>I'm wondering, if i'm doing this: </p> <pre><code>&lt;div style="width:50px;height:50px;background: transparent url(sprite.png) 0px 0px no-repeat;"&gt;555&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style="width:50px;height:50px;background: transparent url(sprite.png) -56px 0px no-repeat;"&gt;666&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style="width:50px;height:50px;background: transparent url(sprite.png) -109px 0px no-repeat;"&gt;666&lt;/div&gt; </code></pre> <p>Is this going to download the image 3 times ? </p> <p>or is it going to download the image 1 time, and show different parts of it in the web page ?</p>