onload event

Fires immediately after the client loads the object.

 

Syntax

HTML Attribute <element onload = "handler(event)">
Event Property object.onload = handler;
attachEvent Method object.attachEvent("onload", handler)
addEventListener Method object.addEventListener("load", handler, useCapture)

 

Event information

Synchronous No
Bubbles No
Cancelable No

 

Event handler parameters

Standards information

Remarks

The client loads applications, embedded objects, and images as soon as it encounters the applet, embed, and img objects during parsing. Consequently, the HTMLInputTextElementEvents2::onload event for these objects occurs before the client parses any subsequent objects. To ensure that an event handler receives the HTMLInputTextElementEvents2::onload event for these objects, place the script object that defines the event handler before the object and use the HTMLInputTextElementEvents2::onload attribute in the object to set the handler.

The HTMLInputTextElementEvents2::onload attribute of the body object sets an HTMLInputTextElementEvents2::onload event handler for the window. This technique of calling the window HTMLInputTextElementEvents2::onload event through the body object is overridden by any other means of invoking the window HTMLInputTextElementEvents2::onload event, provided the handlers are in the same script language.

Loads the object for which the event is specified.

To invoke this event, do one of the following:

  • Open a document to invoke this event for the document or any object within it.

The pEvtObj parameter is required for the following interfaces:

See also

Reference

HTMLInputTextElementEvents2::onreadystatechange

HTMLWindowEvents::onunload