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Message from discussion Automatic $(document).ready

Sam Collett

More options Feb 13 2007, 2:08 pm

From: "Sam Collett" <sam.coll...@gmail.com>

Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 19:08:24 +0000

Local: Tues, Feb 13 2007 2:08 pm

Subject: Re: [Dev] Automatic $(document).ready

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On 13/02/07, Jörn Zaefferer <Enc...@gmx.net> wrote:

> Sam Collett schrieb:
> > I have seen a few times that some are not putting code in
> > $(document).ready, so are sometimes asking why their code does not
> > work, e.g. you may see this
> > ...
> > <script type="text/javascript">
> > $("#mydiv").slideDown();
> > </script>
> > </head>
> > <body>
> > <div id="mydiv">...

> > Would it be possible for jQuery to delay execution if no element is
> > matched and the page isn't fully loaded? That way #myDiv will slide
> > down as expected.

> John actually had some code that did just that. But in most cases it
> works around a programming error that should be fixed instead, therefore
> it never got to wider public. The additional code and possible
> performance lost isn't really worth it.

> --
> Jörn Zaefferer

> http://bassistance.de

Let me guess - was it Internet Explorer that proved to be troublesome?
Using setInterval is the only way I can think of for doing this (but
could slow down the browser if there is lots of code calling it).

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