if (document.loaded) {
  // do stuff
}

- kangax

On Apr 14, 4:58 pm, Michael  Stillwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Sorry, to clarify my code fragment, I want to wait until the DOM is
> ready before running a chunk of code:
>
>   var ajax = new Ajax.Request(url, {
>     onSuccess: function(res) {
>       // run this once the DOM is ready
>    }
>   });
>
> I can't add document.observe("dom:loaded", ...) to the start of the
> onSuccess function because it appears to not run if the DOM is already
> ready, which makes perfect sense from an event based point of view.  I
> guess part of the problem is that dom:loaded is more of a flag than an
> event...  (It can never happen more than once, for example.)
>
> --M.
>
> On Apr 14, 9:42 pm, Tom Gregory <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > There's always the poor-man's method.  At the very end of your DOM,
> > insert a script
>
> > var DomLoaded = true;
>
> > ....
>
> > TAG
>
> > On Apr 14, 2008, at 2:34 PM, Michael Stillwell wrote:
>
> > > document.observe("dom:loaded", ...) doesn't seem to fire if the DOM is
> > > already loaded.  Is there some way to trigger an Ajax.Request and have
> > > onSuccess happen if and only if the DOM is loaded?
>
> > >   var ajax = new Ajax.Request(url, {
> > >     onSuccess: function(res) {
> > >       // run this, but only if DOM is loaded
> > >     }
> > >   });
>
> > > --M.
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