Hi Jeeves, Yes i am using

benf — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 22:04:55 +0000

Hi Jeeves,

Yes i am using jquery already, but doesnt the $(document).ready not overide the onload event?

This does sound reasonable if it does not.

However as from the link that has been provided above, this is also a reasonable solution to add my function to the window.onload if something already exists, but if the onload has been run from the tag this probably will not work?

function addLoadEvent(func) {
  var oldonload = window.onload;
  if (typeof window.onload != 'function') {
    window.onload = func;
  } else {
    window.onload = function() {
      if (oldonload) {
        oldonload();
      }
      func();
    }
  }
}

JeevesBond wrote: many

decibel.places — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 19:07:42 +0000

JeevesBond wrote:

many JavaScript developers are using JQuery these days. It makes stuff like this very easy.

I usually avoid using frameworks like Jquery and Prototype because they add a lot of code that is not ever used (I know many Drupal modules depend on Jquery).

This looks like a good reason to use Jquery - or maybe just extract the part relevant to $(document).ready

I know this doesn't directly

JeevesBond — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 17:03:52 +0000

I know this doesn't directly answer your question (think the other two solutions posted above do that perfectly), but many JavaScript developers are using JQuery these days. It makes stuff like this very easy.

$(document).ready(function() {
  // Do stuff when the document is loaded.
  alert("Hello world!");
});

... and if you are just

webwiz — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 01:05:47 +0000

... and if you are just looking to do stuff after the page is loaded, here is a simple solution: Executing JavaScript on Page Load.

I think if you place a

decibel.places — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 23:24:36 +0000

I think if you place a script in the body that has onload=init; and in the init() function you then load the required functions that should work... but it could supercede an onload= in the body tag.

If that interferes, then you could try just placing the init() function call at the end of the page, but it might fire off early (before page is fully loaded - which might not matter) - in the attached file it is after the body but before the closing html tag.

here is a discussion of triggering onload when the DOM has loaded