Definition of "onload" []

• To load (a vehicle or container). (verb-transitive)
• To load a vehicle or container. (verb-intransitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "You just need to call the function from the body tag onload and voila."
• "One of the consultants is trying to get me to scrap the master pages because he says that the various pages will require different javascript calls at page load and using the master page will cause the javascripts in the header and body tag onload event to load on every page using the master page."
• "To apply the script, I have written the following code, which is applied using page pre render method: gridview1. attributes.add [ "onload"] = "configureGridview ()";"