Is it ok to use google.setOnLoadCallback multiple times?

Question

I\'m building a site using ASP.NET MVC, and I have partial views that use jQuery to do various things. I was thinking of switching to Google\'s AJAX API and using their loa

Answer 1

I may be missing the point here but there's no clash between your usercontrols $(document).ready and google.setOnLoadCallback that I know of.

Assuming you're using google to load jquery, your code in the $(document).ready won't run until google has loaded jquery anyway.

So long as jQuery is being loaded in your masterpage, not sure what the issue is.

Answer 2

I ran into the same problem. I googled have 2 google search running on one page, etc...

In the end i found this and because i wanted to have 2 panels essentially showing google search results on one page.

google.setOnLoadCallback(LoadGoogleNewsResults);
google.setOnLoadCallback(LoadGoogleNewsResultsForum);

This worked for me :)

The code is on http://login.debt-line.org.uk, just click view source.

Answer 3

Yes, you may use setOnLoadCallback in lieu of $(document).ready. There is an undocumented SECOND PARAMETER (or at least, I can't find it) that specifies when to call the callback function; possible values are "false" (default) - on the window load, or "true" - on DOM load (DOMContentLoaded). The DOM event fires once all the markup has loaded (much earlier than window.load). The window load event fires after all the images and scripts and such have finished loading.

// Very similar to $(document).ready()
google.setOnLoadCallback( OnLoad, true );

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// Very similar to $(window).load()
// Same as google.setOnLoadCallback( OnLoad, false );
google.setOnLoadCallback( OnLoad );

Yes, you may use setOnLoadCallback multiple times on a single page. This is a very important undocumented feature of the AJAX API (undocumented as of this posting). Every time you call setOnLoadCallback, it stacks up all the functions to be called once the DOM or window loads.