adding to window.onload event?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15564029/adding-to-window-onload-event

I'm wondering how to add another method call to the window.onload event once it has already been assigned a method call. Suppose somewhere in the script I have this assignment... window.onload = function(){ some_methods_1() }; and then later on in the script I have this assignment window.onload = function(){ some_methods_2() }; As it stands, only some_methods_2 will be called. Is there any way to add to the previouswindow.onload callback without cancelling some_methods_1 ? (and also without including bothsome_methods_1() and some_methods_2() in the same function block). I guess this question is not really about window.onload but a question about javascript in general. I DON'T want to assign something towindow.onload in such a way that that if another developer were to work on the script and add a piece of code that also useswindow.onload (without looking at my previous code), he would disable my onload event. I'm also wondering the same thing about $(document).ready() in jquery. How can I add to it without destroying what came before, or what might come after?

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If you are using jQuery, you don't have to do anything special. Handlers added via$(document).ready() don't overwrite each other, but rather execute in turn: $(document).ready(func1) ... $(document).ready(func2) If you are not using jQuery, you could use addEventListener, as demonstrated by Karaxuna, plusattachEvent for IE<9. Note that onload is not equivalent to$(document).ready() - the former waits for CSS, images... as well, while the latter waits for the DOM tree only. if(document.addEventListener){ document.addEventListener('load', func1) }else{ document.attachEvent('load', func1) } ... if(document.addEventListener){ document.addEventListener('load', func2) }else{ document.attachEvent('load', func2) } If neither option is available (for example, you are not dealing with DOM nodes), you can still do this (I am usingonload as an example, but other options are available for onload): var oldOnload1=document.onload; document.onLoad1=function(){ oldOnload1 && oldOnload1(); func1(); } ... var oldOnload2=document.onload; document.onLoad2=function(){ oldOnload2 && oldOnload2(); func2(); } or, to avoid polluting the global namespace (and encountering likely collisions), using the import/export IIFE pattern: document.onLoad=(function(onLoad){ return function(){ oldLoad && onLoad(); func1(); } })(document.onLoad) ... document.onLoad=(function(onLoad){ return function(){ oldLoad && onLoad(); func2(); } })(document.onLoad)