Re: javascript in <head> or in <body> ?

Ok, you got the obligatory 'wrong list' comments. It is the wrong list, but for the sake of public completeness... how about an answer to the question. You can put it anywhere but a couple of considerations: 1. I believe if you put it AFTER where the JS functions defined in that block are called, it may try to call the functions before the functions appear. So close to the top is always good. I could be wrong on this, but there was some kind of condition along those lines and I think it was with JS and positioning. 2. Non JS compliant browsers. If you put it in the <body>, they're likely to ignore the <script> tags and just blatantly display the JS as if it was meant for output. This can be mitigated by using HTML comment blocks around the JS. Since they're different than JS comment blocks, it won't interfere with the JS. But putting your <script> in the <head> block should also prevent it from being displayed. 3. If you're executing JS in order to output something, you're going to need to put it whereever in your HTML you'll need the output. If you're just defining functions to be called later, then you can put it whereever (probably above where you're calling the functions.. see #1). The only things we don't put in the <head> for <script> blocks is a popup calendar thing that the old developer installed and our users seem to like. Part of it's requirements is a <script> tag that includes some JS and HTML where you want the popup calendar to appear. Could probably be streamlined, but works well enough and doesn't look too ugly so why make more work for ourselves until we do the full re-design (2035?) -TG = = = Original message = = = Are there any rules when to include javascript in <head> or in <body> ? For example, <script type="text/javascript"> function reload(form) var val=form.Chapter.options[form.Chapter.options.selectedIndex].value; self.location='QueryForm.php?Chapter=' + val ; </script> TIA, Cor ___________________________________________________________ Sent by ePrompter, the premier email notification software. Free download at http://www.ePrompter.com.