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How to listen to a script tag's onload event?

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<script id=me src=https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.3/jquery.min.js></script

<script>

    var oB = document.getElementsById('me');

    me.onload = function(){

        alert('OK');

    }

</script>

Why me.onload is not triggered after the script is loaded?

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answered 9 Years ago brodyfrancisi · Accepted Answer

There are 2 issues:

a missing > at the end of the first line (you have written </script instead of </script>)

there is no variable me: you have retrieved the script tag into a variable oB.

Thus, you can fix your code by change me.onload = ... to ob.onload = ....

Moreoever, you should avoid using inlined declaration of event listeners such as <script onload=...>.

Last but not least, you should use addEventListener instead of onxxx: addEventListener vs onclick