Is there a cross-browser onload event when clicking the back button?

Question

For all major browsers (except IE), the JavaScript onload event doesn’t fire when the page loads as a result of a back button operation — it only fires when the

Answer 1

OK, here is a final solution based on ckramer's initial solution and palehorse's example that works in all of the browsers, including Opera. If you set history.navigationMode to 'compatible' then jQuery's ready function will fire on Back button operations in Opera as well as the other major browsers.

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Example:

history.navigationMode = 'compatible';
$(document).ready(function(){
  alert('test');
});

I tested this in Opera 9.5, IE7, FF3 and Safari and it works in all of them.