I forgot to mention that I have added the elementReady plugin to the plugin repository at http://jquery.com/plugins/project/elementReady
I'm looking forward to your comments and suggestions! Cheerio Bennett. On Aug 29, 10:44 pm, Bennett McElwee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have written a simple but useful jQuery plugin. > jQuery.elementReady() calls a function during page load as soon as a > specific element is available -- even before the full DOM is loaded. > It's useful if you have unobtrusive JavaScript that you want to apply > to particular page elements immediately, without having to wait for > the whole DOM to load in a large page. > > Using the elementReady plugin is very similar to the existing > jQuery.ready() function, except that you must also pass in a string > representing the ID of the element that should have the function call > attached. > > The plugin, documentation and more are available > athttp://www.thunderguy.com/semicolon/2007/08/14/elementready-jquery-pl... > > This is an early version of the plugin. While it works well for me in > testing (and on this page), it has not been reviewed or exhaustively > tested. I would appreciate your comments on the idea and the > implementation.