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Re: Run a function after page load -- but not from tag

dummy@example.com (Mulasse) — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 11:03:10 +0000

With prototype:

$(document).observe('dom:ready', function(){
  //your function call here
});

With jQuery:

$(document).ready(function(){
  //your function call here
});

Re: Run a function after page load -- but not from tag

dummy@example.com (ricketts) — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 04:27:48 +0000

I know this post is old, but this is a great post to bookmark for different ways to execute javascript or jquery on the load of a webpage: http://webdeveloperpost.com/Articles/Wa … loads.aspx

Re: Run a function after page load -- but not from tag

dummy@example.com (Slurpy) — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 19:40:28 +0000

Hmm... interesting.

Actually, it seems that prototype can deal with this sort of thing in a nice way. See the following documentation: http://www.prototypejs.org/api/event/observe

Re: Run a function after page load -- but not from tag

dummy@example.com (bobobi) — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 19:15:14 +0000

You might try sticking the JavaScript code you want to run in a Controller variable (like @js_function_call), then expand that variable inside the

using a Ruby snippet, like this:

...

Let me know if that works - it might come in handy elsewhere! Good luck.

Run a function after page load -- but not from tag

dummy@example.com (Slurpy) — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 00:18:07 +0000

I'm playing around with my own cheap version of an ajax chat system.

To start getting chat events, I need to call a javascript function just one time. I'm currently using . Which is not a great place for this, because I won't know which parts of the website really will need to call that function -- only the ones that have a chat box, should make a call to this function.

So, really, I'd like to stick a call to the function into the div that will do the chatter reporting. How should I do this?

So I want it in here:

...

and not in the tag.

Thoughts?