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When a page is loaded (onLoad) does this mean the data can be seen on screen?
Nov 12th, 2003 06:41
Russ Locke, Thursday Next,
onload fires when the page has completely loaded and rendered the html.
this is atleast true for MSIE (and I'm pretty sure true for NS).
I use this event scenerio for displaying a download progress meter
which clears onload.
I do this by:
<html>
<head>
<script language="javascript">
window.status = "loading page";
document.write("<a name='progressindicator'></a>");
document.write("<span id='loadingpage'
style='visibility:hidden'><table height=100% width=100% border=0><tr
height=100%><td width=100% align=center valign=center><img
src='process_meter.gif' border=0 id='progressimage'><br><br>");
document.write("loading page");
document.write("</td></tr></table></span>");
var progressTimeID = setTimeout
("window.location.hash='progressindicator';document.getElementById
('loadingpage').style.visibility='visible';", 1500); // only display if
it seems we are taking too long
function clearProgress() {
clearTimeout(progressTimeID);
window.status = '';
document.getElementById('loadingpage').innerHTML="";
}
</script>
</head>
<body onload="clearProgress();">
blah
</body>
</html>
