Waiting for a site to finish loading

[Brett]

I have just picked up javascript so that I can write some scripts for
Greasemonkey. For those not familiar with grease monkey it is a program
that allows you to change websites before you view them. Very cool
program.

Anyway I want to write a script that waits until the entire page is
loaded to run. I am working with very large pages that take a while to
load.

Does anyone know how to do this? or any good websites for looking up
this sort of information?

Brett

[mscir]

Brett wrote:

...
Anyway I want to write a script that waits until the entire page is
loaded to run. I am working with very large pages that take a while to
load.

Does anyone know how to do this? or any good websites for looking up
this sort of information?

Brett

http://scriptasylum.com/tutorials/pageevents.html

http://www.devguru.com/Technologies/...an_onload.html

Mike

[Brett]

Hmm yeah I found something that said OnLoad was the event I was looking
for but this does not really work. At the moment I am trying to write a
script file that makes a message popup displaying the title of the
page. If this code is run before the title is loaded then it obviously
is not going to work properly.

so far I have this
<SCRIPT>
window.onload( alert(document.title) );
</SCRIPT>

it pops up with a blank message. But when i use this code instead. It
will work provided I have it at the bottom of the page.

<SCRIPT>
alert(document.title);
</SCRIPT>

So it seems that the onload is either not doing what it is supposed to
do or I am not using it properly. Any Ideas?

Brett

Thank you for the web pages btw they will help me alot.

mscir wrote:

Brett wrote:

...
Anyway I want to write a script that waits until the entire page is
loaded to run. I am working with very large pages that take a while to
load.

Does anyone know how to do this? or any good websites for looking up
this sort of information?

Brett

http://scriptasylum.com/tutorials/pageevents.html

http://www.devguru.com/Technologies/...an_onload.html

Mike

[Randy Webb]

Brett wrote:

Hmm yeah I found something that said OnLoad was the event I was looking
for but this does not really work.
It does if you use it properly.
At the moment I am trying to write a script file that makes a message
popup displaying the title of the page. If this code is run before the
title is loaded then it obviously is not going to work properly.
True.
so far I have this
<SCRIPT>
window.onload( alert(document.title) );
</SCRIPT>
window.onload=someFunction;
function someFunction(){
alert(document.title);
}

Had you bothered to read the group FAQ you wouldn't be asking this.
it pops up with a blank message. But when i use this code instead. It
will work provided I have it at the bottom of the page.

<SCRIPT>
alert(document.title);
</SCRIPT>
It will work anywhere *after* the title tag is presented.
So it seems that the onload is either not doing what it is supposed to
do or I am not using it properly. Any Ideas?

1) You are not using it properly.
2) Read the group FAQ.
3) Search the c.l.j archives.

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Randy
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