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Travis J
Travis J

Reputation: 82297

Which jQuery event handler works for page load?

I have a simple page, just trying to attach a load event to the document. I am not sure which event handler to use in jQuery to do this with. I tried $() and $(document).ready and .load but neither seem to run the code at the right time. Should I be using .on, .live? Or is there something I am doing wrong. Here is a sample:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<script type="text/javascript">
    $(document).ready(
        showWidth()
    );
    function showWidth() {
        alert($('#textTitle').width());
    }
</script>
</head>
<body>
<div class="page">
        <div id="title">
            <h1 id="textTitle">yo</h1>
        </div>
</div>
</body>
</html>

When I run this the alert displays null.

Upvotes: 5

Views: 7247

Answers (3)

Tobias Krogh
Tobias Krogh

Reputation: 3942

There are two states of loading. One is "DOM ready" which can be asked by just using

// the long way
$(document).ready(function() { console.log("dom ready"); });
// the short way
$(function() { console.log("dom ready"); });

Or you want to wait for the "load" of the actual page (images, iFrames and so on) then you could use

$(window).load(function() { console.log("everything should be loaded"); });

Upvotes: 1

sjmdev
sjmdev

Reputation: 159

Try this http://jsfiddle.net/vdCwE/

Also, are you sure you are including jQuery in your page? I didn't see it in your code.

Upvotes: 1

Chuck Norris
Chuck Norris

Reputation: 15200

You forgot to write your code into function.

$(document).ready(function() {
        showWidth();
    });

Or just simply

    $(function() {
        showWidth();
    });

Upvotes: 6

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