One important point to note while dealing with JavaScript execution timing is to be sure that the entire page has finished loading prior to allowing the JavaScript to begin executing its code. The reason for waiting for page to load is to allow all of the assets and external references to load on the page before attempting to manipulate them. If your JavaScript attempts to perform an action on an element that doesn't exist, your application flow could fail. To avoid this issue, we can add an event listener to the DOM allowing it to run only once the page has been completely loaded and comes to display. Utilizing the DOM event for JavaScript offers an easy way to do just this as shown in the following code:
window.addEventListener("load", init, false);
var init = function() {
// Start everything from in here.
}Now, when the window has completed its load process the init function is called and the remainder of the application code can begin execution. JavaScript...