link element onload

Question

Is there anyway to listen to the onload event for a element?

F.ex:

var link = document.createElement(\'link\');
link.rel =          


        

Answer 1

You either need a specific element which style you know, or if you control the CSS file, you can insert a dummy element for this purpose. This code will exactly make your callback run when the css file's content is applied to the DOM.

// dummy element in the html


// dummy element in the css
#cssloaded { height:1px; }

// event handler function
function cssOnload(id, callback) {
  setTimeout(function listener(){
    var el = document.getElementById(id),
        comp = el.currentStyle || getComputedStyle(el, null);
    if ( comp.height === "1px" )
      callback();
    else
      setTimeout(listener, 50);
  }, 50)
}

// attach an onload handler
cssOnload("cssloaded", function(){ 
  alert("ok"); 
});

If you use this code in the bottom of the document, you can move the el and comp variables outside of the timer in order to get the element once. But if you want to attach the handler somewhere up in the document (like the head), you should leave the code as is.

Note: tested on FF 3+, IE 5.5+, Chrome