setTimeout / Opera problems

[derekjackson]

Hi,
I have a simple script to change the page after a certain time. It works fine in Netscape, IE, Safari and Firefox, but not Opera.

function startTimer() { timer = setTimeout("redirect()", 16000) }

function redirect() {
parent.content.location="main.html";
and so on for other frames...
}

and startTime is called using an onload within an img tag.

Any ideas? Or can Opera just not do it?!

Derek

[Jona]

Move your onload event to the body and see if it works. Opera might not support "onload" in the IMG element. (I don't even think "onload" is in the specification for the IMG tag, some browsers probably just decided to implement it.)

[derekjackson]

Hmm...

I put it in an IMG tag because it's animated GIF - I want to forward the page once the GIF has played through once.

Is there any way of linking it to the GIF (ie. call the function once the GIF has loaded, not the page), yet placing it in the body?

[7stud]

Try to figure out if it is a setTimeout() problem or an onload problem. There are some old articels you can google that say Opera doesn't support onload for an image.

[derekjackson]

It's the 'onload' Opera doesn't like (works fine with 'onclick').

Any ideas folks?

[scragar]

try adding your onload function to the very bottom of the page, that way it has to load before it runs it.

[derekjackson]

That seems to do the job!

I can't tell yet for sure if it only starts after the image is loaded until I upload the site, but thanks!