$(window).load
On Jul 9, 10:16 pm, benjam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maybe I'm missing something totally obvious, but I was trying to get > an alert to fire after some of the page loads, (but before ().ready). > > I tried the following: > $('body').load( function( ) { alert('Hello World'); } ); > > with no effect. > > I also tried it with some of the other elements on the page. Also > with no effect. > > But the following works perfectly, albeit a little later than I'd > like: > $(document).ready( function( ) { alert('Hello World'); } ); > > Basically, what I'm trying to do, is to get the alert to fire a tad > sooner for pages that might take a while to load completely, but not > quite as soon as it would if I just put the naked alert in some script > tags. > > Am I missing something?