body tag onload event does not fire

[Jay Damon]

I modified a page in an old application to add a body tag onload event. However, the body tag onload event does not fire. I traced the problem to the following line in some JavaScript menu code that is being included and executed in the page:

window :-o	 nload=f31

where f31 is a menu function.

If I remove the line to fire the window onload event, the body onload event successfully fires as I would expect. And curiously, if I change the window onload line to:

window :-o	 nload=f31();

both the window and body onload events fire but this also results in a (yellow triangle with exclamation point) JavaScript error which is worse than the original problem.

This problem is occurring in IE6. I would appreciate any suggestions as to how to get around this.

[Eric Pascarello]

with move the body onload call to this line in the menu or move the menu call to the body onload.

You can only have one!

so it should either be

window.onload = function(){ foo(); bar();}

or

onload="foo();bar();"

Eric

[Jay Damon]

Thanks Eric. One more question: Am I to understand that window onload and body onload are the same event?
[ April 16, 2007: Message edited by: Jay Damon ]

[Bear Bibeault]

Yes.