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== Running code on page load ==

The personal "<code>user"</code> module (built from <kbd>/common.js</kbd>, <kbd>/common.css</kbd> and optionally the skin-specific files for the current skin); see [[#Writing a script from scratch|above]]) and [[Wikipedia:Gadget|gadgets]] are loaded on all pages. Most scripts will want to manipulate elements on the page; to do so the page needs to be ready (which may not be the case at the time the modules are loaded). We can defer execution of code by using a special function.

=== <code>$(document).ready(...)</code> ===