Another way could be to create the javascript component and invoke it by 
adding a onload behavior to your dropdown, this should work?

I've implemented a simple progress indicator this way, although I used 
the onclick event.

regards Nino

Mark van Leeuwen wrote:
> Thanks for the suggestions but I don't like either of these solutions.
>
> First one involving the use of the label is the hack to which I have already
> referred. In my case I am extending DropDownChoice and it would be messy to
> require a special label component to go with it. I want to use just the one
> component. If I make it a panel, then I lose the advantage of allowing the
> <select> and <option> tags to be used directly.
>
> The 2nd option is also a pain. The script needs to be invoked when the page
> is being loaded. To invoke script in the header means calling it from body
> onload etc. Much simpler to just have the script inline after the component
> html.
>
> I am investigating now whether I might be able to by overriding
> DropDownChoice.onRender().
>
> Maybe a new behavior would be a more generic solution.
>
> Any other ideas would be welcome...
>     
>
>   
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:wicket-user-
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alex Objelean
>> Sent: Wednesday, 23 May 2007 5:02 PM
>> To: wicket-user@lists.sourceforge.net
>> Subject: Re: [Wicket-user] Best way to insert inline Javascript
>>
>>
>>
>> There is at least two solutions.
>> 1. The ideea is to use <script> tag as a Label component and its
>> modelObject
>> contains a generated script....
>> http://www.nabble.com/Feedbackmessages%3A-extend-by-new-type-ALERT---
>> tf3795933.html
>> see this post .
>>
>> 2. Use TextTemplateHeaderContributor for adding javascript - you can also
>> interpolate variables inside it.
>>
>> component.add(TextTemplateHeaderContributor.forJavaScript(getClass(),"mysc
>> ript.js",
>> variables));
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Mark van Leeuwen wrote:
>>     
>>> Writing my first custom component...
>>>
>>> I want to initialise the component using inline Javascript placed
>>> immediately after the component markup.
>>>
>>> Searching the message archive I found one solution which is to use a
>>>       
>> label
>>     
>>> to output the script. Seems a bit of a hack.
>>>
>>> Is there a better way?
>>>
>>>
>>>       
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