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Asked: 2026-05-14T22:33:04+00:00

So I’ve got an XHTML page with a script – not inline > <script

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So I’ve got an XHTML page with a script – not inline

> <script type="text/javascript"
> src="../global/js/scripts.js"></script>

and an embedded (I tried embed and object, same behavior) SVG document with a onload=”CheckIfLoaded(evt)” attribute.

The problem is firefox doesn’t call the CheckIfLoaded() function in scripts.js. Firebug gives me “CheckIfLoaded() is not defined” with no reference to any line numbers. I can’t find any information regarding the scope of javascript functions with respect to embedded content. Curiously, it works fine in IE.

I could of course add a reference to the script into the SVG file as well but I believe that will result in the client downloading the scripts file twice and in addition I have 1000+ svg files and I’d really rather not add one line to all of them, although I suppose I could write a batch file or whatever if I have to.

Any one know more about this?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Do you have the onload on the svg element or on the object/embed tag?

    Sounds like you want to call functions in the referencing (“parent”) document, see examples here.

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