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From: Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.javascript
Subject: Re: DOM styling modified by <body onload=> JavaScript does not affect first rendering
Date: Sat, 01 Nov 2014 15:23:50 +0100
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Christoph M. Becker wrote:

> Evertjan. wrote:
>> <body style="display:none;"
>>   onload='document.body.style.display="block"'>
>> 
>> works fine here, however:
>> 
>> <body style="display:none;"
>>   onload='this.style.display="block"'>
>> 
>> cannot be used, why is that?
>> 
>> cann't we use "this" in a onload?
> 
> In this case /this/ is bound to the window object,

Probably yes.

> because the onload attribute of the body elements maps to the load event
> of the window object.

No.

> Test:
> 
>   <body onload="console.log(this)">

Non sequitur.

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