Window.onload event not firing

Technical Support
1

The window.onload event is not firing in my 8th Wall hosted project. How do I listen for the onload event in 8th Wall?

2

The loading sequence of cloud editor projects is head.html > app.js > body.html . By the time your code in app.js is executed, the onload event has likely already fired (while the default splash screen is being displayed).

A better/safer approach is to listen on events such as realityready (AFrame) or xrloaded events (when XR8 is on the window), or within init() of an AFrame component.

3

If you wish to make DOM manipulations programmatically after body.html is loaded, a common pattern is to put code similar to the following at the end of app.js:

const onxrloaded = () => {
  // Run any code that you'd like to execute after the body.html is loaded.
}

window.XR8 ? onxrloaded() : window.addEventListener('xrloaded', onxrloaded)