when popup window content loaded

[Andrew Poulos]

From a window opener how can I know when a popup window's content has
loaded? I tried:

var pop = window.open(url, str);
pop.onload = something;

which triggers in some browsers but not in IE. For IE I tried

pop.onreadystatechange = function() {
if (pop.readyState == "complete") {
something();
}
};

but it never seemed to trigger.

Andrew Poulos

[Doug Gunnoe]

On Nov 11, 9:35*pm, Andrew Poulos <[e-mail]:

*From a window opener how can I know when a popup window's content has
loaded? I tried:

var pop = window.open(url, str);
pop.onload = something;

which triggers in some browsers but not in IE. For IE I tried

pop.onreadystatechange = function() {
* *if (pop.readyState == "complete") {
* * *something();
* *}

};

but it never seemed to trigger.

Andrew Poulos

Did you try "pop.document.body.onload = something" ?

[Andrew Poulos]

Doug Gunnoe wrote:

On Nov 11, 9:35 pm, Andrew Poulos <[e-mail]:

> From a window opener how can I know when a popup window's content has
loaded? I tried:

var pop = window.open(url, str);
pop.onload = something;

which triggers in some browsers but not in IE. For IE I tried

pop.onreadystatechange = function() {
if (pop.readyState == "complete") {
something();
}

};

but it never seemed to trigger.

Andrew Poulos

Did you try "pop.document.body.onload = something" ?

Just did. No joy :-(

Andrew Poulos

[Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn]

Andrew Poulos wrote:

From a window opener how can I know when a popup window's content has
loaded?

You can't. However, you can know from a popup when its document has
finished loading, and you can notify the opener then.

I tried:

var pop = window.open(url, str);
pop.onload = something;

which triggers in some browsers but not in IE. [...]

There is a race condition to begin with.
PointedEars
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