elementReady: a jQuery plugin

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• Wow

  I just realised today that I need this functionality. So I did a google search and found this.

  Then I wonder why there’s no comments for such a cool thing - I check the date and it was posted today !! What great timing : )

  I’ll give it a go now …

  weepy

  *…(

  weepy | 15 September 2007

• Very Nice function, surprised that this was not included in jquery to begin with — brilliant :).

  Robert | 10 October 2007

• If you think this should be part of jQuery, you can rate it on the jQuery site:
  http://jquery.com/plugins/project/elementReady

  If enough people use the plugin and rate it highly then it may eventually be included in the jQuery core. Spread the word!

  Bennett | 10 October 2007

• What is difference between your plugin and jQuery .ready() function. I think that each methods doing the same result. I can write:
  $j(’element’).ready(function);

  zysio | 9 November 2007

• Zysio, $('id').ready(function) doesn’t do what you think it does. Actually the ‘id’ is pretty much ignored — it’s equivalent to $(document).ready(function). In other words, the function is not called until the entire document has been loaded. That’s why you need to use $.elementReady('id', function): then the function gets called as soon as the element is loaded, even if the document is not completely loaded.

  This makes sense when you think about it: if the element whose id is ‘id’ has not yet been loaded, then $('id') contains no elements. Therefore, if ready applied to individual elements then $('id').ready(function) would have no effect.

  Bennett | 11 November 2007

• Note there was a bug in the original version of elementReady that I posted here. It could cause some elementReady events not to fire if you called elementReady more than once on a page. I have fixed the bug and updated to version 0.5.

  Bennett | 11 November 2007

• Maybe a dumb question: how can I check to see if two ID’s have been loaded? I need to run a function after two iFrames have been loaded and I don’t think it’s the same as chaining multiple calls…or maybe it is.

  Any help is appreciated.

  Lee | 14 November 2007

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