JavaScript AddedToStage equivalent

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What is the closest thing to ActionScripts ADDED_TO_STAGE event. I need to know when a dynamically generated div has been added to another div

var myDiv = document.createElement("div");
$(someContainer).append(myDiv);

possible duplicate of [window.onload equivalent after modifying the DOM?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15700903/window-onload-equivalent-after-modifying-the-dom) — Diodeus - James MacFarlane, Jun 19 '13 at 19:01
[**There you go.**](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Guide/DOM/Events/Mutation_events) — Benjamin Gruenbaum, Jun 19 '13 at 19:11

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 10:25

If you're using a function such as appendChild to add static text to the DOM, that's a synchronous event. It will be added and rendered by the time your function returns.

If you're appending a child that depends on an external resource, you're looking for the onload event. This works for the main document (window.onload = function() { ... }), and according to What html tags support the onload/onerror javascript event attributes?, body, frame, frameset, iframe, img, link and script. (They apparently get their information from http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/event_onload.asp, which is not nearly as good as straight from the spec, but I couldn't find the details in there.)

JavaScript AddedToStage equivalent

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