Maybe I'm missing something totally obvious, but I was trying to get an alert to fire after some of the page loads, (but before ().ready).
I tried the following: $('body').load( function( ) { alert('Hello World'); } ); with no effect. I also tried it with some of the other elements on the page. Also with no effect. But the following works perfectly, albeit a little later than I'd like: $(document).ready( function( ) { alert('Hello World'); } ); Basically, what I'm trying to do, is to get the alert to fire a tad sooner for pages that might take a while to load completely, but not quite as soon as it would if I just put the naked alert in some script tags. Am I missing something?