Open prototip on page load

I needed a prototip to open automatically on page load.  $(<id>).prototip.show() should do that, but it just wasn’t working.  Nick Stankenburg over on his Prototip forum gave me some ideas, but nothing worked until I set the prototip to open on a very short delay: if(window.location.hash == ‘#vote-now’) { document.observe(‘dom:loaded’, function() { setTimeout(“$(‘left-vote-button’).prototip.show()”,100); }); }