Where is <script> tag placed?
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Answer:
Traditionally <script> tags are placed inside the <head> tag in an HTML document.
But, because a browser stops all rendering of the page while it parses and executes the scripts, it is often placed after the presentational content just before the closing <\body> tags in many pages. This helps to speed up the page render.
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When embedding JavaScript in an HTML document, where is the proper place to put the <script> tags and included JavaScript? I seem to recall that you are not supposed to place these in the <head> section, but placing at the beginning of the <body> section is bad, too, since the JavaScript will have to be parsed before the page is rendered completely (or something like that). This seems to leave the end of the <body> section as a logical place for <script> tags.
So, where is the right place to put the <script> tags?
(This question references this question, in which it was suggested that JavaScript function calls should be moved from <a> tags to <script> tags. I'm specifically using jQuery, but more general answers are also appropriate.)