Does body.onload wait for IFrames?

Question

I know that onload event waits for page resources to load before firing - images, stylesheets, etc.

But does this include IFrames inside the page? In other words, is it guaranteed that all the child Frames' onloads will always fire before the parent's does?

Also, please let me know if behavior varies between browsers.

Answer 1

No, it doesn't. If you want to do something like that, you'll need to add an onload handler for the iframe. You can do this nicely with jQuery:

  <iframe src="http://digg.com"></iframe>
  <script>
    var count = $('iframe').length;
    $(function() {
      // alert('loaded'); // will show you when the regular body loads
      $('iframe').load(function() {
        count--;
        if (count == 0)
            alert('all frames loaded');
      });
    });
  </script>

This would alert when all the frames are loaded.

See the example:

http://jsbin.com/azilo