Onload within body tag

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Onload within body tag

Can body tag close after onload attributes?

gniver

2:31 pm on Aug 5, 2005 (gmt 0)

I have sites and have seen other sites that have onload attributes as part of the open body tag. The tag is closed at the end of the onload attributes. Is this incorrect? Should the body tag only include the acceptable attributes and then put the onload attributes elsewhere?
Here is what I'm referring to:

[edited by: encyclo at 2:41 pm (utc) on Aug. 5, 2005]
[edit reason] Fixed sideways scroll [/edit]

encyclo

7:08 pm on Aug 5, 2005 (gmt 0)

Ideally, the list of onload images and such should be placed within an external Javascript file, but some scripts for rollover menus, including many from Dreamweaver and other wysiwyg tools list all the preload images within the onload attribute on the body tag of each page.

The latter method is more efficient when dealing with different onlad attributes for each separate page, but you should go external if the images are the same thoughout the site.

gniver

7:20 pm on Aug 5, 2005 (gmt 0)

Thanks Encyclo! HTML validator comes back that there is no onload attribute for a body tag. Is there another way around it?

encyclo

7:28 pm on Aug 5, 2005 (gmt 0)

Which doctype are you using, gniver? If it is an XHTML one, you need to set all your attributes as lower-case:

[b]onload[/b]

rather than

onLoad

gniver

1:09 am on Aug 6, 2005 (gmt 0)

It is XHTML and I'll go in and make the change. Thanks again!