Re: Using addEventListener to call function when document loads

document.addEventListener("load", my_listener, true); will do just that 
for HTML documents.

Jonathan Watt wrote:
> I have asked this question before, but for whatever reason I didn't get 
> an answer. I am going to ask it again as I think that it is important. 
> Apologies to anyone who doesn't want to be bothered by it.
> 
> How can you use addEventListener in a document to call a function when 
> the same document loads? If I understand the recommendations correctly 
> then adding onload attributes to tags is only still supported for 
> backwards compatibility. But I don't see any way of using 
> addEventListener to recreate the same action. Is this something that was 
> overlooked during the writing of the recommendations? Or am I myself 
> overlooking something?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Jonathan.
> 


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jst