Attribute for <IMG ...>
onLoad = "script command(s)"
The onLoad event is fired when the image is finished being downloaded. For
example, the following code displays an alert box when the image is
downloaded:
<IMG
SRC="../graphics/pumpkin.gif" ALT="picture of a pumpkin"
HEIGHT=100 WIDTH=100
onLoad="alert('loaded')">
which gives us
Unfortunately, onLoad is not a very reliable event handler. Netscape
particularly has trouble firing onLoad when the image is malformed in some way
or if the image is loaded from cache instead of freshly downloaded from
the net.
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