What is the DOM ready event?

Question

I need to fire a script as soon as the page content (the whole HTML element) has been received, but it doesn\'t have to be rendered yet.

I assume that just having a

Answer 1

You might also try with the functions

window.onload = function(){
   //your code
  }

or

body.onload = function(){
   //your code
  }

if you don't want to use jQuery.

Be careful though, DOM loaded doesn't mean the page loaded, iframes, javascript, images and css might load after that event.

There is a good tuto on DOM events Javascript tutorial