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xhtml <body onload> attribute 7

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1DMF

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is this right? XHTML doesn't allow "onload" for the body tag.

how do you fire up javascript when the page has loaded without it?

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Don't forget to declare scripts as CDATA for XHTML well-formedness:
Code: 
<script>
  [COLOR=green]// <![CDATA[[/color]
    [i]foo[/i]
  [COLOR=green]// ]]>[/color]
</script>
This prevents characters like < and > being misinterpreted as the start of a tag (e.g. [tt]if(x<y)[/tt]).

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wow i didn't know that, thanks, I take it i don't need that if the HTML links to external JS files? only around embedded scripts

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1DMF said:
I take it i don't need that if the HTML links to external JS files? only around embedded scripts
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Quite right.

In fact, you only need it if your script contains characters which create malformed XML (such as angle brackets <>). I also use templating engines, so I make the template system mark all embedded scripts as CDATA, just to be sure.

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manarth said:
Don't forget to declare scripts as CDATA for XHTML well-formedness:
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Do you know - I've never actually read up on what CDATA did! Thanks for pointing it out - I'll remember that one now.

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According to MSDN, the defer attribute is compliant with HTML 4.0 and W3C DOM Level 1. If it has no effect in Firefox, then there is a problem with Firefox.

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w3c said:
defer [CI] - When set, this boolean attribute provides a hint to the user agent that the script is not going to generate any document content (e.g., no "document.write" in javascript) and thus, the user agent can continu
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A hint. It does not state that the user agent needs to take specific action. I don't see a problem here with Firefox.

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