Difference between document.ready and window.onload or pageLoad

Hi all,
Today we are discuss one important topic related to document.ready and window.onload or pageLoad.

$(document).ready()

If the DOM is ready, jQuery’s document.ready() method gets called

• The $(document).ready() function executes when HTML document is loaded and DOM is ready.
• It is jQuery specific event
• It is cross browser compactibility






• It’sthe best for onetime initialization.
• $(document).ready() is not called each and every partial postback of update panel
• $(document).ready() is called only one time during first time of page loading.
• code written in $(document).ready() method will not be initialized each and every partial postback.
• Unable to re-attach the functionality to elements/controls of the page affected by partial postbacks.
• The ready() method specifies what happens when a ready event occurs

SYNTAX

$(document).ready(function)

OR

The ready() method can only be used on the current document, so no selector is required:

$(function)

OR

jQuery(document).ready(function(){ });

OR

$(document).on(‘ready’, function(){ })

Example

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Toggle between slide up and slide down for a p element

Code

This is a paragraph.

Toggle between slide up and slide down for a p element

$(window).load()

When images and all associated resources of the page have been fully loaded, the pageLoad() gets called.

• The $(window).load() function executes when complete page is fully loaded, including all frames, objects and images.
• Suppose your web page has large image size then until all the images are not fully loaded on the page, here the pageLoad() method will not called
• This is not browser compactibility. Only call on web pages.

SYNTAX

$(window).load(function(){});

Simple Code

SUMMARY

In this article I try to share the differnce between document.ready() and window.onloadorpageLoad(). I hope this article helps you in your coding language and also understand the use of both these methods.

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