Does the IFRAME\'s onload event fire when the HTML has fully downloaded, or only when all dependent elements load as well? (css/js/img)
Just when the html loads, not the dependent elements. (or so I think).
To fire when the rest of the page loads do jQuery(window).load(function(){ or window.onload not document onready.
You can also check to see if an image element is loaded and there... if image . load-- etc.
The above answer (using onload event) is correct, however in certain cases this seems to misbehave. Especially when dynamically generating a print template for web-content.
I try to print certain contents of a page by creating a dynamic iframe and printing it. If it contains images i cant get it to fire when the images are loaded. It always fires too soon when the images are still loading resulting in a incomplete print:
function printElement(jqElement){
if (!$("#printframe").length){
$("body").append('<iframe id="printframe" name="printframe" style="height: 0px; width: 0px; position: absolute" />');
}
var printframe = $("#printframe")[0].contentWindow;
printframe.document.open();
printframe.document.write('<html><head></head><body onload="window.focus(); window.print()">');
printframe.document.write(jqElement[0].innerHTML);
printframe.document.write('</body></html>');
// printframe.document.body.onload = function(){
// printframe.focus();
// printframe.print();
// };
printframe.document.close();
// printframe.focus();
// printframe.print();
// printframe.document.body.onload = function()...
}
as you can see i tried out several methods to bind the onload handler... in any case it will fire too early. I know that because the browser print preview (google chrome) contains broken images. When I cancel the print and call that function again (images are now cached) the print preview is fine.
... fortunately i found a solution. not pretty but suitable. What it does that it scans the subtree for 'img' tags and checking the 'complete' state of those. if uncomplete it delays a recheck after 250ms.
function delayUntilImgComplete(element, func){
var images = element.find('img');
var complete = true;
$.each(images, function(index, image){
if (!image.complete) complete = false;
});
if (complete) func();
else setTimeout(function(){
delayUntilImgComplete(element, func);}
, 250);
}
function printElement(jqElement){
delayUntilImgComplete(jqElement, function(){
if (!$("#printframe").length){
$("body").append('<iframe id="printframe" name="printframe" style="height: 0px; width: 0px; position: absolute" />');
}
var printframe = $("#printframe")[0].contentWindow;
printframe.document.open();
printframe.document.write(jqElement[0].innerHTML);
printframe.document.close();
printframe.focus();
printframe.print();
});
}
The latter: <body onload=
fires only when all dependent elements (css/js/img) have been loaded as well.
If you want to run JavaScript code when the HTML has been loaded, do this at the end of your HTML:
<script>alert('HTML loaded.')</script></body></html>
Here is a relevant e-mail thread about the difference between load and ready (jQuery supports both).