body onload executing after script element?

yawnmoth · Jul 17, 2006

<body onload="alert('test')">
<script>location = "http://www.google.com"</script>
</body>

....and...

<body onload="alert('test')"></body>
<script>location = "http://www.google.com"</script>

It seems to me as though an alert window containing the word 'test'
ought to appear before the page is redirected to Google yet it isn't.
Any ideas as to why?

Lee · Jul 17, 2006

yawnmoth said:

<body onload="alert('test')">
<script>location = "http://www.google.com"</script>
</body>

...and...

<body onload="alert('test')"></body>
<script>location = "http://www.google.com"</script>

It seems to me as though an alert window containing the word 'test'
ought to appear before the page is redirected to Google yet it isn't.
Any ideas as to why?

Why would you expect that? In-line script is executed as the page
is loading. The onload method executes after it has loaded.

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Sevinfooter · Jul 17, 2006

also, there should be a semicolon after the alert method

alert("BLAH BLAH");

Richard Cornford · Jul 17, 2006

Sevinfooter said:
also, there should be a semicolon after the alert method

alert("BLAH BLAH");

That would be "should" in the sense of ; there is no necessity to
insert a semicolon at that point because automatic semicolon insertion
will do it for you, and any instruction to insert such a semicolon
represent no more than a style preference (even if a common one).

Richard.

Sevinfooter · Jul 17, 2006

Richard said:
That would be "should" in the sense of ; there is no necessity to
insert a semicolon at that point because automatic semicolon insertion
will do it for you, and any instruction to insert such a semicolon
represent no more than a style preference (even if a common one).

Richard.

All I'm saying, is that it works for me with <body
onload="alert("blah");">

Richard Cornford · Jul 17, 2006

Sevinfooter said:
All I'm saying, is that it works for me with
<body onload="alert("blah");">

In what sense "works" (considering that the expected behaviour has been
being exhibited from the outset), and how does that "works" differ from
what happens without the semicolon?

Richard.

Sevinfooter · Jul 17, 2006

About the problem, what I recommend is that you wrap it all in a
function:

<body onload="someFunction();">
<script>
function someFunction() {
alert("your message");
location="http://www.google.com";
}
</script>

Cheers,

Mark

Lee · Jul 17, 2006

Sevinfooter said:

About the problem, what I recommend is that you wrap it all in a
function:

<body onload="someFunction();">
<script>
function someFunction() {
alert("your message");
location="http://www.google.com";
}
</script>

That doesn't seem to be what the OP was trying to do.

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