[removed] seems to trigger before the DOM is loaded (JavaScript)

Question

I am having trouble with the window.onload and document.onload events. Everything I read tells me these will not trigger until the DOM is fully loa

Answer 1

It's important to understand that () is an operator, just like + or &&. () Takes a function and calls it.

So in that case, doThis is a function object, and () is the operator that calls the function. doThis() combined to together calls doThis, executes it, and evaluates to the return value of doThis

So window.onload = doThis() is basically assigning the return value of doThis to window.onload

And thus, to fix that, you need to reference the function itself, not call it.

Do window.onload = doThis