# JavaScript in Phoenix project

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**Category:** Questions\
**Tags:** phoenix, javascript, phoenix\_html\
**Created:** [September 22, 2019, 7:10pm UTC](https://forum.elixirforum.com/t/javascript-in-phoenix-project/25577 "2019-09-22T19:10:40Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 22, 2019, 7:40pm UTC](https://forum.elixirforum.com/t/javascript-in-phoenix-project/25577/7 "2019-09-22T19:40:03Z")

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Note that `DOMContentLoaded` will only fire if [`document.readyState`](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Document/readyState) is still in the `loading` state. By the time it is set to `interactive` (or later `complete`) the `DOMContentLoaded` event has already been fired.

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> **[Document: DOMContentLoaded event - Web APIs | MDN](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Document/DOMContentLoaded_event#Checking_whether_loading_is_already_complete)**
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> The DOMContentLoaded event fires when the HTML document has been completely parsed, and all deferred scripts (

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