Combining multiple hacks that use onload

  • tcervo

    (@tcervo)


    20 years, 3 months ago

    As some of you may have read in previous topics, trying to combine more than one hack that uses an oload event (either in the body tag as onload=””, or in a javascript file with window.onload=””) causes only the last one called to actually execute.
    This would cause a problem if, say, you’re using the NiceTitles hack to get pretty tooltips, then want to install the Uber Blockquotes hack to make your citations and links appear below your blockquotes…both use window.onload.
    (I wrote up a nice article on my site yesterday, but the servers have been down since 8:00pm last night. I guess their sysadmins all got the holiday off…)
    Anyway, it was unbelievably easy to get around this problem. Simply remove the window.onload event from any script/hack that uses it, inlcuding any onload calls you might have in your body tag. Next, creat the following javascript at the end of your external .js file:
    // Function to allow multiple onload functions to be called
    function multipleOnload()
    {
    extractBlockquoteCitations();
    makeNiceTitles();
    externalLinks();
    }
    window.onload = multipleOnload;
    // end function
    Just put any functions you want to call inside multipleOnload and you’re set!
    -Tony

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  • Anonymous

    20 years, 2 months ago

    You can also go
    window.onload = function ()
    {
    extractBlockquoteCitations();
    makeNiceTitles();
    externalLinks();
    }

    ~Mary

    Anonymous

    19 years, 8 months ago

    couldn’t you also simply do,
    <BODY onLoad=”extractBlockquoteCitations(); makeNiceTitles(); externalLinks();”>
    ?

    Anonymous

    19 years, 5 months ago

    Great solution!!
    Exactly what we need.

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