jquery fade element does not show elements styled 'visibility: hidden'

Question

I have a bunch of thumbnails which I am loading with a style of visibility: hidden; so that they all maintain their correct layouts. Once the page is fully load

Answer 1

Add a few calls to the chain like this:

 $('.littleme').css('visibility','visible').hide().fadeIn('slow');

This will change it to display:none for 1 frame before fading in, occupying the area again.