Detect when page has completed loading without JQuery? Is this possible?

[misha680]

Thank you.

window.onload does not quite seem to do the trick.

My only other idea is to do:
setInterval(myfunction,1000)

where myfunction goes through DOM tree and detects any changes (well at least element additions - new elements with unknown id's).

What do you guys think?

Misha

p.s. I'm reassigning IDs anyway so should be doable...

[Fang]

If you believe you can accomplish your goal using jQuery, why not use it?

[misha680]

If you believe you can accomplish your goal using jQuery, why not use it?

Good point. Several questions for you:
1) I am running Javascript on the client (browser) side rather than from the Web site (analogous to the javascript: command in FireFox). Can I use jQuery from the client side? If so, how?
2) If I use jQuery, does the document.load _ensure_ that the page has completed loading? In other words - if I want to read the DOM structure of the document _once_, can I safely do so after document.load in jQuery, or could there still be changes (_not_ caused by user interaction) that occur as a result?

Thank you
Misha

p.s. Here is my simple idea:
* look at document.getElementsByTagName('*').length every 2 seconds (?)
* if it has not changed - we are done. otherwise, wait again

What do you think?

Thank you!

[Fang]

1) Include the jQuery library in the document.

2) That would depend on what you are doing.

[misha680]

Ok... but I can't control the document. So is (1) still possible? Thank you!

Misha

[Fang]

but I can't control the document

So it's not your site? Please explain what your goal is; we then may be able to help you better.

[misha680]

I am working on a Web Automation Framework
http://www.mkosh.com
in the spirit of WebDriver
http://code.google.com/p/selenium/wiki/GettingStarted
using the SWT Browser object
http://www.eclipse.org/articles/Arti...t/browser.html

In other words:
i) I have a Java application (on the user's computer)
ii) I am able to do two things from this application:
a) go to some URL
b) execute Javascript code in the browser object
iii) I would like to somehow know when the page has finished loading

My only idea is to:
a) execute: return document.findElementsByTagName('*').length and record value
b) wait two seconds
c) execute: return document.findElementsByTagName('*').length and record value
d) If the value from (c) is different from previous value, goto (b). Otherwise, page has finished loading...

Any other ideas?

Thank you
Misha