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Asked: 2026-06-15T16:52:24+00:00

See the source of http://marakana.com/s/post/1096/samples/try6.htm It defines a function and calls it on load

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See the source of http://marakana.com/s/post/1096/samples/try6.htm
It defines a function and calls it on load of document. (Which is the final step of this tutorial)

I tried to put it into a seperate JS file.
Runs correctly only if I call onload both in JS and in HTML.
But not only body onload or only from JS. I guess I am doing something wrong.
So, following works:

<head>
<script src="Scripts/makeWYSIWYG.js" type="text/javascript"/>
<script type="text/javascript">
            window.onload = function () {
               makeWYSIWYG(document.getElementById('editor'));
            };
</script>
</head>
<body onload="makeWYSIWYG(document.getElementById('editor'));">

Why do I need to call the function twice?

I only have the function definition in “Scripts/makeWYSIWYG.js”
function makeWYSIWYG(editor) {
…
return editor;
};

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  1. Editorial Team

    The problem was actually the closing tag, “/>”, here:

    <script src="Scripts/makeWYSIWYG.js" type="text/javascript"/>

    I should have written:

    <script src="Scripts/makeWYSIWYG.js" type="text/javascript"> </script>

    I guess the second script was helping the tag to be closed and making it run…

    More info here: Why don't self-closing script tags work?

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