<script> in html or php document

Question

I used to put my jquery and javascript stuff just BEFORE the /head... on top of the html document....

Thinking about that, for NO good reason...

Now, in some part of the document, there will be generated part in php and i can used some jquery here and there..

So the question is : can i put jqueyr (document).ready on top and anywhere i like to be.... in the body...or there is some restriction or speed/parsing problem that will rise

Any though on that will light up my world !

Answer 1

Try it! and see what happens.

You can put the (document).ready inside the body tag

Answer 2

yes you can. it really makes no difference as document.ready() is simply setting up an event handler for code that executes AFTER the DOM has arrived in the browser.

Answer 3

Technically, it should be fine. Multiple $(document).ready are perfectly legitimate and will work as expected, and even execute in order. The two things to consider are:

• Readability - could seriously clutter up the output with code, which is somewhat defiant of the purpose of jQuery.
• Scope - a function declared in one $().ready block is cannot be seen from the other $().ready(... blocks.

Some discussion can be found (a bit dated) but here it is anyway:

http://www.learningjquery.com/2006/09/multiple-document-ready

Answer 4

I am not sure on this... but from what I know, stuff in section have a greater priority on the loading of the html

have you ever seen a website that has lost it's CSS? if you check for the source-code, their CSS is probably outside the head section, because the browser didn't try too many times the connection to it

but I can be wrong about this.