Thank you. I'm not exactly doing Ajax, but I should have mentioned that when the page is loaded, user-admin time preferences for innerfade.js, for example, are selected from the database and populate template placeholder in the Javascript.
So, it sounds like I will not be kicked out of the pool if I run my JS in the body. Phew! On Nov 29, 7:29 pm, Shawn <sgro...@open2space.com> wrote: > When doing dynamic sites, you sometimes have no choice but to put the JS > in the body area. My rule of thumb is to use libraries wherever > possible and include those libraries in the <head> section. But with > the understanding that *sometimes* (though rarely these days) I will > need to put JS into the body. > > Take a look at what you are doing with the code that is in the body > area. Can that code be wrapped up in a function and called in the > $(document).ready() function? If so, then that is probably what you > should be doing to make your code more self contained. > > Building Ajax driven sites sometimes needs the code in the body area > though. If you dynamically add a block of elements and need to do > something to them the moment they are loaded, then this *might* be a > reasonable time to embed JS code directly. Though I tend to use > $.ajax() and so can just call a function after adding the elements. > Which means I can pre-write that function in a library, with no JS > needed in the body area. > > Clear as mud? :) > > Shawn > > breadwild wrote: > > I have seen several examples on jQuery plugin sites that have the > > <script> tag and Javascript within the <body> and not the <head> where > > I thought it was supposed to go. > > > It would be better for my content manager and the templating system if > > the Javascript *were* in the <body> but I don't want to be guilty of > > not having unobtrusive code. > > > What's the standard/acceptable/best practices method? > > > <head> > > <script> > > javascript here > > </script> > > </head> > > > VS. > > > <body> > > html here > > <script> > > javascript here > > </script> > > </body> > > > Thanks in advance!
