Comments on: Closures and executing JavaScript on page load

By: Solmaz

Solmaz — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 07:18:04 +0000

so useful… thank you.

By: myxo

myxo — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 13:46:43 +0000

THANKS! Saved my ass.

By: johnnyboyNiumata

johnnyboyNiumata — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 13:15:41 +0000

I love this latest code works great..... I use it to load flash movies in after the rest of the page in conjunction with Robert Nymans flash loading script

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 06:49:57 +0000

By: Allen Sanford

Allen Sanford — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:39:50 +0000

Just in case you ar wondering no this does not work in firefox 3

By: buduznat

buduznat — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:13:56 +0000

thank you! i was banging my head on a problem for days :) great work!

By: Kylir Horton

Kylir Horton — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 02:27:20 +0000

Amazing. This is beautiful. I’ve used this in many locations on a web application I’m working on and it has worked flawlessly and solved many problems which would have otherwise broken the application. Thank you very much for your work!

By: Meteorbites

Meteorbites — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 10:04:14 +0000

I'm just wondering how it differs from using your sample below. (Figure 1.) on (Figure 2). Figure 2 achieved the same thing as Figure 1 with lesser code. Figure 1


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

addLoadEvent(function() {
    document.body.style.backgroundColor = 'yellow';
})
addLoadEvent(function() {
    document.body.appendChild(document.createTextNode('Hungry'));;
})
addLoadEvent(function() {
    document.body.appendChild(document.createTextNode(' monkeys!'));;
})


window.onload=function()
{
  document.body.style.backgroundColor = 'yellow';
  document.body.appendChild(document.createTextNode('Hungry'));
  document.body.appendChild(document.createTextNode(' monkeys!'));  
}

email: meteorbites@yahoo.com

By: Mike L

Mike L — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 20:49:42 +0000

I just wanted to say thank you for providing this code and the explanation.

I have been fighting with some code on a page that I don’t have the ability to insert into the ‘body’ tag, and your code allowed me to overcome that problem.

Pasted it in, added the function name, and saved it.

It wourked perfectly, the very first time.

Thanks again.

By: Charlie

Charlie — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 18:48:06 +0000

Dear Sir

I am using Opera 8 on Windows XP.

I have embedded a Quick Time movie in the page. I have created a simple button that calls the movie to play:

object.Play();

When I press the reload button at the top of the Opera browser and try clicking on the play button again. The movie does not play. If I close Opera, and open it again and press play, it works. Infact I can press play several times aslong as I do not reload or refresh the browser.

In Opera 9, everything works fine, but I need to display this application on all versions of all browsers.

Do you know what might be causing the prolem. In the error console, I get:

name: TypeError
message: Statement on line 46: Type mismatch (usually a non-object value used where an object is required)

Please could you help me, I am tearing my hair out here!

Thanks in advance…

e-mail: cdesign@btinternet.com
mobile: 07881987197

Charlie