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Learning jQuery 3

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785882982
Length 448 pages
Edition 5th Edition
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Jonathan Chaffer Jonathan Chaffer
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started FREE CHAPTER 2. Selecting Elements 3. Handling Events 4. Styling and Animating 5. Manipulating the DOM 6. Sending Data with Ajax 7. Using Plugins 8. Developing Plugins 9. Advanced Selectors and Traversing 10. Advanced Events 11. Advanced Effects 12. Advanced DOM Manipulation 13. Advanced Ajax 14. Appnedix A – Testing JavaScript with QUnit Appendix B – Quick Reference

Performing tasks on page load


We have already seen how to make jQuery react to the loading of a web page. The $(() => {}) event handler can be used to run code that depends on HTML elements, but there's a bit more to be said about it.

Timing of code execution

In Chapter 1, Getting Started, we noted that $(() => {}) was jQuery's primary way to perform tasks on page load. It is not, however, the only method at our disposal. The native window.onload event can do the same thing. While the two methods are similar, it is important to recognize their difference in timing, even though it can be quite subtle depending on the number of resources being loaded.

The window.onload event fires when a document is completely downloaded to the browser. This means that every element on the page is ready to be manipulated by JavaScript, which is a boon for writing feature-rich code without worrying about load order.

On the other hand, a handler registered using $(() => {}) is invoked when the DOM is completely...

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