# HTML onload Event Attribute

HTML Event Attributes

## Example

Execute a JavaScript immediately after a page has been loaded:

<body onload="myFunction()">
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## Definition and Usage

The onload attribute fires when an object has been loaded.

onload is most often used within the <body> element to execute a script once a web page has completely loaded all content (including images, script files, CSS files, etc.). However, it can be used on other elements as well (see "Supported HTML tags" below).

The onload attribute can be used to check the visitor's browser type and browser version, and load the proper version of the web page based on the information.

The onload attribute can also be used to deal with cookies (see "More Examples" below).

## Browser Support

Event Attribute |  |  |  |  |
--- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ---
onload | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes

## Differences Between HTML 4.01 and HTML5

None.

## Syntax

<element onload="script">

## Attribute Values

Value | Description
--- | ---
script | The script to be run on onload

## Technical Details

Supported HTML tags: | <body>, <frame>, <frameset>, <iframe>, <img>, <input type="image">, <link>, <script> and <style>

## More Examples

## Example

Using onload on an <img> element. Alert "Image is loaded" immediately after an image has been loaded:

<img src="w3html.gif" onload="loadImage()" width="100" height="132">
<script>
function loadImage() {
alert("Image is loaded");
}
</script>
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## Example

Using the onload event to deal with cookies (using "advanced" javascript):

<body onload="checkCookies()">
<script>
var text = "";
if (navigator.cookieEnabled == true) {
text = "Cookies are enabled.";
} else {
text = "Cookies are not enabled.";
}
document.getElementById("demo").innerHTML = text;
</script>
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