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Re: body onload not executed

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Tom de Neef wrote on 15 feb 2012 in comp.lang.javascript:

> I help someone with a XHTML site. It loads dozens of JavaScript files
> and a lot of processing is going on during the loading of a page.
> The script I am interested in is called via <body
> onload="getChartInfo()">. The dubugger (in IE, FF or Chrome) tells me
> that the necessary js file has been loaded. But a breakpoint at the
> start of the function body is never reached.
> In a test environmet - where I have removed all the other scripts -
> things work fine.
> There is only one <body> tag and the page is presented in the browser.
> I would say that the onload event must have occurred. What is a likely
> reason that the event handler is not called?

When JS has encountered an error, 
preventing correct parsing of getChartInfo() ?


Try:

<script type='text/javascript'>

blah(; // missing ")"

// much more code

function a(){
	alert('ok');
};

</script>

<body onload='a();'>




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Evertjan.
The Netherlands.
(Please change the x'es to dots in my emailaddress)

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body onload not executed "Tom de Neef" <tdeneef@qolor.nl> - 2012-02-15 00:09 +0100
  Re: body onload not executed "Evertjan." <exjxw.hannivoort@interxnl.net> - 2012-02-14 23:29 +0000
    Re: body onload not executed "Tom de Neef" <tdeneef@qolor.nl> - 2012-02-15 09:26 +0100
      Re: body onload not executed Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2012-02-15 09:08 +0000
        Re: body onload not executed "Tom de Neef" <tdeneef@qolor.nl> - 2012-02-15 10:26 +0100
          Re: body onload not executed Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2012-02-15 13:48 +0000
      Re: body onload not executed "Evertjan." <exjxw.hannivoort@interxnl.net> - 2012-02-15 10:33 +0000
  Re: body onload not executed Hans-Georg Michna <hans-georgNoEmailPlease@michna.com> - 2012-02-15 17:56 +0100
    Re: body onload not executed "Tom de Neef" <tdeneef@qolor.nl> - 2012-02-17 14:45 +0100
  Re: body onload not executed Dr J R Stockton <reply1207@merlyn.demon.co.uk> - 2012-02-15 20:37 +0000
    Re: body onload not executed Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-02-15 16:46 -0800

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