Tek-Tips is the largest IT community on the Internet today!

Members share and learn making Tek-Tips Forums the best source of peer-reviewed technical information on the Internet!

Register Log in
  • Congratulations SkipVought on being selected by the Tek-Tips community for having the most helpful posts in the forums last week. Way to Go!

window.onload vs. <body onload =

Status
Not open for further replies.
jaschulz

jaschulz

Programmer
May 20, 2005
89
0
0
FR
What is the difference between window.onload and the onload event in the body tag? IE7 seems to treat them differently than FF2, Safari 3 and Opera 9 (Win XP PRO SP2). Is there a reason to prefer one over the other? Does it make a difference if window.onload appears in an imported script? Is there a document somewhere that explains this stuff?

Thanks,

JAS
 
Sort by date Sort by votes
>What is the difference between window.onload and the onload event in the body tag?
There isn't. The problem if any has to be viewed not from the difference but from the loading order point of view. The order usually is the document order. The last got loaded wins. What is the observation?
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
I am unable to reproduce what I was (or thought I was) seeing earlier. Sorry to have bothered you with this.

JAS
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
Status
Not open for further replies.

Similar threads

JScannell
  • Locked
  • Question
Programmatically inserting a newline in a <textarea>, <span>, or <div>
Replies
5
Views
296
ggriffit
ggriffit
pomt
  • Locked
  • Question
Object Document vs Object HTMLDocument
Replies
0
Views
51
pomt
pomt
admoore
  • Locked
  • Question
table expand collapse < default collapse 1
Replies
6
Views
33
vacunita
vacunita
NewtownGuy
  • Locked
  • Question
body onload won't fire due to video stream
Replies
0
Views
22
NewtownGuy
NewtownGuy
ag1060
  • Locked
  • Question
hidden value in <select> 1
Replies
1
Views
27
jpadie
jpadie

Part and Inventory Search

Sponsor

Back
Top