jQuery data() is null/empty/not available at DomReady

[Derek Hunziker]

Hi all,

Just thought I would share that access to the data() object of all the components does not appear to be available at DomReady. This is likely due to the fact that the Telerik scripts are loaded at the end of the page or the data() object is initialized AFTER DomReady (please correct me if I'm wrong here).

I discovered this while trying to run a client function on DomReady that accessed some NumericTextBox values.

The workaround is to just use window.load() instead:

// Works
$(window).load(function () {
    var $data = $('#MyNumericTextBox').data('tTextBox');
    alert($data.value);
});

// Does not work
$(function () {
    var $data = $('#MyNumericTextBox').data('tTextBox');
    alert($data.value);
});