Andy is absolutely right, but I'd like to add that you can call $ (document).ready() anywhere on the page and as many times as you want.
On Apr 14, 10:34 am, "Andy Matthews" <li...@commadelimited.com> wrote: > You can externalize the document.ready call if you choose, I do it all the > time. > > As for putting it at the bottom of the page, I'd say no. Putting it in an > external JS file, with the ready call makes it so that code is not run until > the entire DOM is ready anyway. > > andy > > -----Original Message----- > From: jquery-en@googlegroups.com [mailto:jquery...@googlegroups.com] On > > Behalf Of kgosser > Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2009 10:28 AM > To: jQuery (English) > Subject: [jQuery] Should $(document).ready() be external? And should it be > placed at the bottom of the page? > > Hey all, > > Two quick questions for you. I couldn't find the answers while searching... > This would be a great thing to add to the jQuery FAQ, by the way. > > (1) Is it advisable to place a page's $(document).ready() stuff in an > external .js file? > > I've been doing a lot of reading and research on optimizing my front end > code, and YSlow seems to make a big deal of placing code externally if > possible for caching reasons. I understand the usefulness of placing the > code in an external document for that reason, however, the problem is that > there are a lot of functions for button and link clicks, shows/hides, etc., > that are unique to that page and used differently on other pages. > > Thus, putting it externally means it would most likely have to be in an > independent file just for that page... which means an added HTTP request > which is really the speed killer. > > So anyways, looking for thoughts on this one. > > (2) Is it advisable to place the $(document).ready() at the bottom of the > page right before the closing BODY tag? > > Also when doing my research, I've seen that YSlow makes a big deal of this > as well. I'm sure many of you on here have discussed it or thought about it > yourself. > > My question though is does it make sense to put the ready() code at the > bottom? Does it help? Is it useful? Will it break? > > Thanks in advance for any feedback. Take care everyone.
