Official way to ask jQuery wait for all images to load before executing something

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With jQuery, you use $(document).ready() to execute something when the DOM is loaded and $(window).on("load", handler) to execute something when all other things are loaded as well, such as the images.

The difference can be seen in the following complete HTML file, provided you have a lot of jollyrogerNN JPEG files (or other suitable ones):

<html>
    <head>
        <script src="jquery-1.7.1.js"></script>
        <script type="text/javascript">
            $(document).ready(function() {
                alert ("done");
            });
        </script>
    </head><body>
        Hello
        <img src="jollyroger00.jpg">
        <img src="jollyroger01.jpg">
        // : 100 copies of this in total
        <img src="jollyroger99.jpg">
    </body>
</html>

With that, the alert box appears before the images are loaded, because the DOM is ready at that point. If you then change:

$(document).ready(function() {

into:

$(window).on("load", function() {

then the alert box doesn’t appear until after the images are loaded.

Hence, to wait until the entire page is ready, you could use something like:

$(window).on("load", function() {
    // weave your magic here.
});

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