JavaScript event window.onload not triggered

javascript onload onload-event
user321068 picture user321068 · May 11, 2010 · Viewed 90.8k times · Source

I've got the following code in a website:

 window.onload = resize;
 window.onresize = resize;

 function resize(){
  heightWithoutHeader = (window.innerHeight - 85) + "px"; 
  document.getElementById("main-table").style.height = heightWithoutHeader;
  document.getElementById("navigation").style.height = heightWithoutHeader;
 }

The onresize works fine, but the onload event never fires. I've tried it in Firefox and Chrome and neither of them works.

Thank you for your help and go for the reputation! ;D

Answer

Nick Craver picture Nick Craver · May 11, 2010

I think what's probably happening here is that your window.onload is being overridden later, check to make sure that it's not via things like <body onload="">

You can check this by alert(window.onload) in your re-size function, to see what's actually attached there.

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