Is DOMContentLoaded and document.onload events are same?

Question

DOMContentLoaded

document.addEventListner('DOMContentLoaded',function(){

})

document.onload

document.onload(function(){

});

Is DOMContentLoaded and document.onload events are same

Answer 1

The syntaxe should be (as a comment pointed out) :

document.onload = function(){};

and I think it does only work when targeting an elemnt like so :

document.getElementById('image').onload = function(){};

It will assign the function to the onload handler.

Whereas

document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', function(){})

Waits for the DOM to be ready before triggering, meaning that images, iframes, ect... could not be loaded.

Answer 2

Could be useful for someone

source : Difference between DOMContentLoaded and load events

DOMContentLoaded==window.onDomReady()

Load==window.onLoad()

A page can't be manipulated safely until the document is "ready."jQuery detects this state of readiness for you. Code included inside $( document ).ready() will only run once the page Document Object Model (DOM) is ready for JavaScript code to execute. Code included inside $( window ).load(function() { ... }) will run once the entire page (images or iframes), not just the DOM, is ready.

See: http://learn.jquery.com/using-jquery-core/document-ready/